Mar 162015
 
Screenshot of psecio-parse scan

I used rips for many years to help with auditing source code.  Lets face it, anytime you can automate a mundane task such as source code auditing, you free up time for other things to be done…..plus if you have ever stared at source code for 14+ hours straight reading line by line by line ….. you know how well automation helps save your vision.

Anyways, today I found a new project at github and wanted to document how I set it up.  One thing to keep in mind is that this is a relatively new project, and with any new project of this size and scope … we can generally expect a few things …. lots of development changes and false positives.  Even with this being known, I still love the direction the project is already moving … so lets begin.

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Oct 312012
 
#!/bin/bash
 
# By Ed Wiget
# This script grabs the latest nmap, zenmap, ncat, nping in rpm format and converts them to deb
 
# 20121031 - original script
 
# the version we are grabbing
VER=6.01-1
 
# the architecture we are using
ARCH=x86_64
 
# our working dir
TEMP_DIR=~/nmap-files
 
# check if it exists and if not, create it
if [ ! -d ${TEMP_DIR} ]; then
	mkdir -p ${TEMP_DIR}
fi
 
# check to make sure alien is installed and if not, install it
if [ ! -f /usr/bin/alien ]; then
	sudo apt-get install alien
fi
 
# cd to the working dir
cd ${TEMP_DIR}
 
# 386 files
# http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.01-1.i386.rpm
# http://nmap.org/dist/zenmap-6.01-1.noarch.rpm
# http://nmap.org/dist/ncat-6.01-1.i386.rpm
# http://nmap.org/dist/nping-0.6.01-1.i386.rpm
 
# x86_64 files
# http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.01-1.x86_64.rpm
# http://nmap.org/dist/ncat-6.01-1.x86_64.rpm
# http://nmap.org/dist/nping-0.6.01-1.x86_64.rpm
 
# no arch
# http://nmap.org/dist/zenmap-6.01-1.noarch.rpm
 
# grab the files
wget -O ${TEMP_DIR}/nmap-${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm
wget -O ${TEMP_DIR}/ncat-${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm http://nmap.org/dist/ncat-${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm
wget -O ${TEMP_DIR}/nping-0.${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm http://nmap.org/dist/nping-0.${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm
wget -O ${TEMP_DIR}/zenmap-${VER}.noarch.rpm http://nmap.org/dist/zenmap-${VER}.noarch.rpm
 
# remove any deb files currently in this dir
rm -f *.deb
 
# convert the downloaded files to deb
sudo alien nmap-${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm
sudo alien ncat-${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm
sudo alien nping-0.${VER}.${ARCH}.rpm
sudo alien zenmap-${VER}.noarch.rpm
 
# install the packages
sudo dpkg --install *.deb

Jun 182012
 

So, a few guys at work are using this and I was looking for something lighter than what I use when I need syntax highlighting, which normally I use kate or eclipse.  When I don’t need syntax highlighting I use vim.

First, from the web page “Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features”.

Installation is really easy on ubuntu

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Jun 132012
 

I love tweetdeck, so imagine my surprise when Adobe decided to not support AIR on linux anymore.  So until today, I had still been using the native adobe air version of tweetdeck on linux.  Yesterday though, tweetdeck would randomly lock up.  Today, it wouldn’t post or anything so I set out to install the windows version on linux using wine.  Its actually pretty damn easy and so far, no problems.

This is how you do it in 5 steps or less in ubuntu’ish linux:

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