Static in the Ether

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.

With the 16^th incarnation of Defcon having come and gone last week, a number of people have put together a nice list of the various tools released. The ZDnet’s Rob Fuller has done all the hard work of tracking down the various tools and their websites in his article -  entitled “ DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
“seems to be the most definitive.  Another (updated) list is on Rob’s personal site in which he includes some other items like Packet-O-Matic, PE-Scambler andVMware Pen-Testing Framework, alng with a link to the ISO.

Of all the tools release its DAVIX, that makes me happiest, other than it being a relaly slick Compilation of VizSec tools, it also features InetVis, which is a part of the postgraduate research by one of my students (Jean-Pierre van Riel), which I previously posted about.

iKat is the other tool that tickles my fancy.

There are some interesting setf odf Defcon Photos floating around such as these by sits, who has also made available a zip of the of the Defcon 16 CD contents.An 732MB ISO  version is also available that at least has checksums.

I see some fun times ahead!

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.