Nmap 5.0 is out

Nmap 5.0 has been released, with a bunch of improvments : look at the changelog.

Yersinia : patch to compile under openSUSE (11.1)

Yet another post in the series of compilation failures due to unexpected libraries paths. This time, it is about Yersinia and the ncurses library. I made the following yersinia-opensuse11.1 patch which should work for openSUSE 11.1 and maybe other versions or distros.

Compilation of PackETH on openSUSE

PackETH is a nice gkt tool to play with Ethernet packet. I encountered some path issues with the Makefile and openSUSE 11.1 64 bits to compile it, so here is the packETH-opensuse patch to compile correctly. If you are on a 32 bits system, all you will have to do is editing the CPPFLAGS line…
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“Why Mono doesn’t suck”

For the sake, a nice post which I hope will contribute to stop the FUD against Mono.

ARPFreeze

ARPFreeze is a nice GUI for Windows that allows to configure static ARP entries very easily, and makes these changes persistent after reboot. Thus does it protect the client machine against ARP flooding. It works for both Windows Vista and prior versions (support of arp -s and netsh).

Promiscuous mode detection

Detectpromisc is a python script based on Scapy, that allows to detect if a computer is sniffing the network. By nature, it is quite difficult to detect if a machine is sniffing, because it operates passively, receiving all packets from the wire but, normaly, answering only to packets destinated to itself. There are however several…
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