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Cleaning up…

Barry Irwin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:11:32 +0000

With the year almost half gone, and Winter Solstice almost a distant memory, its time to catch up with some of the systems related housekeeping. While conficker seems to still be rampaging around from my scan log inspections, the Conficker Working Group has been quite since late April. A far greater threat to civilization is that coming from North Korea. Some of the sysadmin type work done include:

migrating the host for this blog, along with pretty much all my other FreeBSD boxes to FreeBSD 7.2.
Trying out the new jail(8) features in 7.2 particularly the multip ip and ipv6 support
A move to wordpress 2.8, which while the upgrade was pretty painless Ive ruin into some hastles with plugins that break the nice widget selection system under the admin panel – most notable of the plugins I’ve notice d causing this is wp-recapcha. Along with this has been a migration to somethign alittle more elegant than the boring Kubric Theme.
A pilot version of my new squid external_acl filtering software is being tested by two sites, so far with positive results.

Progress on the phd is plodding on with growing collection of rather interesting images and plots generation that I now need to try fathom and write about. with the university now on vac I should be able to make good progress in this direction.

One of the most fascinating and gripping books I have read in a while is Ed Macy’s Apache, which is well worth a read if you are into military biographies.

Applied Security Visualization released

Barry Irwin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:54:44 +0000

I probably should have posted this a while back but, its still worth noting that Raffael Marty’s Applied Security Visualization has been released, and includes a copy of the DAVIX CD as distributed at Defcon 16 (davix-1.0.1-defcon16.iso.gz – also obtainable from the homepage, includes a couple of packet traces as used in the Defcon workshop) , which includes a copy of InetVis as one of their four chosen visual analysis tools on the live CD.

For the impatient some instructions are available for getting started. Now to work out what else to order form amazon so that the 40USD specail shipment fee hurts a little less ( thanks to our totally criminal and incompetent post office in South Africa)

Failing that its time to wait till the local places get round to stocking it.

DAVIX live CD looking for Beta Testers

Barry Irwin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:34:14 +0000

DAVIX is the upcoming live CD for data analysis and visualization, which will be released at Blackhat/DEFCON in Las Vegas this summer, with another talk at VizSec 2008. From the VizSec.org announcement:

Jan Monsch and Raffael Marty and have prepared the second beta version of DAVIX. And are now seeking for beta testers that have the time to test DAVIX and answer the questionnaire that comes along with the beta version. All completely filled out questionnaires received by me until Monday 23 June 2008 18:00 UTC will enter a raffle for one autographed copy of Raffy’s upcoming book “Applied Security Visualization”.

If you want to participate in the beta test please contact: jan.monsch ät iplosion.com

What makes me quite happy is that they have included InetVis as one of their four chosen visual analysis tools on the live CD.

I’ve been paying with this since this morning and so far so good.