Wireshark 1.6.1 stable version released

The stable version of wireshark 1.6.1 has been released lately (July 18). Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto standard across many industries and educational institutions.

To download wireshark, visit this link.

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Virtual Box 4.1 Is Out

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.


Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.1, a new major release. Introducing VM clones, increased capability for very large hosts, and Windows Aero support. You can view the Changelog in this version.

For downloads, check this link.

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Search Exploits & Vulnerability With Exploitsearch.net

The site, www.exploitsearch.net, is an attempt at cross referencing data from various sources and making the resulting database available to everyone.

Unlike other exploit search engines which are simply custom google searches, this site actually crawls the source sites and parses the contained data. Once the data is collected and parsed, it is inserted into the www.exploitsearch.net database and becomes available for searching.

www.exploitsearch.net

Currently utilizes data from NVD, OSVDB, SecurityFocus, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nessus, OpenVAS, and PacketStorm.Comes handy for better results. :)

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Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.5.8 Is Out

Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tools.

Changes: The Hive (registry viewer) features three new reports: email accounts, TCP/IP interfaces, and computer descriptions. All registry reports can be exported as CSV and the user password report can be exported in a format suitable for John the Ripper as well. Minor improvements were made.

For more information and downloads, visit the official link here.

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Ubuntu PPA Managing With PPABuilder

While reading stuffs on internet I came across this. You can manage your ubuntu PPA using the PPABuilder tool.

To install the tool, type the following commands from terminal:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:lkjoel/ppabuilder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ppabuilder

The complete guide for this is available here.

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Source Code Auditing With Graudit

Graudit is a simple script and signature sets that allows you to find potential security flaws in source code using the GNU utility grep. It's comparable to other static analysis applications like RATS, SWAAT and flaw-finder while keeping the technical requirements to a minimum and being very flexible.

The tool can be downloaded from HERE




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Search, Stream, and/or Download Audios/Videos From Youtube and Other Sites With GMediaFinder

GMediaFinder is a new GTK based desktop application that allows you to search, stream and download audios and videos from different sites. Both the windows and linux version of the tool are available and it can be great alternative to Minitube for linux.

It support fullscreen mode (double click on the video or F2/esc), visualisations and use the gstreamer engine to play sounds and videos. This tool also allows searching and streaming of audio and video from several other websites such as azmp3s.com, Tagoo, etc.

It is available for ubuntu through PPA so to install the tool, type the following commands in your terminal.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:s-lagui/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gmediafinder

I hope this info is useful. :)




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how to split a file in linux

If you need to split a single large file into smaller pieces to transfer the files through small memory drives(I had to transfer 4.6 GB matlab ISO using two 4 GB pendrives), there's this simple command line tool called "split" developed by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.


Fire up the terminal and navigate to the directory in which the file to be splitted is present.

Then, we'll use the split command as below:

split --bytes=2G matlab.iso matlab_

After executing the above command, the iso is divided into smaller chunks of specified file size. The --bytes option can take various different arguments such as 2K, 2M, etc.

To recombine the files into a single file, open the terminal and type the following after navigating to the proper directory.

cat matlab_* > matlab.iso

For more information on the command, type man split.



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