If you are the least bit interested in network security, you’ll undoubtedly have heard about Slowloris by now.
Slowloris is a piece of software written by Robert “RSnake” Hansen which allows a single machine to take down another machine’s web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects …
If you follow the (security) news a bit, you’ve undoubtedly heart about Firesheep. This tool makes it very easy to listen in on public WiFi connections and intercept HTTP Cookies from a plethora of social networking sites and mail services.
This has been possible for a long time (some …
Speaking of wireless…
The following is just a quick note-to-self, because I always forget the exact commands and end up crawling around the Aircrack wiki for a bit. I though I’d posted this before, but I can’t seem to find it.
sudo airmon-ng start eth1
# Assume monitor …Update for Ubuntu 12.04 users: see this post.
After upgrading to Ubuntu Maverick recently, the Aircrack suite stopped working for me.
After setting airodump to a channel (like usual):
airodump --channel **X**
It still displayed its status as:
fixed channel mon0: -1
Some forum users advised to use:
airodump …I’ve received a few more e-mails and blog comments containing input and information about the famous DirectDraw palette problem which messes up colors in older games.
In particular, Windows contains compatibility entries in the registry, and Jari Komppa has written a ddraw.dll which wraps DirectDraw.
I’ve updated …
A few days ago some of my programs stopped showing their icons in the Windows (7) notification area. A quick peek at the Task Manager revealed that they were, in fact, running.
Changing the notification settings and peeking around in the task bar configuration revealed nothing.
It turns out that …
Replace C:\Windows\system32\sethc.exe with cmd.exe (e.g. by renaming and/or using a repair CD: with the Vista repair CD you can open “notepad” in the command prompt and execute file manipulations from the Open Dialog).
Restart. At the login screen press “Shift” five …
Because I always forget these commands and end up double checking them…
vncviewer -listen PORT
(Using UltraVNC on Windows.)
x11vnc -connect IP:PORT
Using Python and Beautiful Soup. This updates the previous script posted on this blog.
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen
import re
CATEGORY_GAMES = '998'
CATEGORY_VIDEOS = '999'
CATEGORY_DEMOS = '10'
CATEGORY_MODS = '997'
CATEGORY_PACKS = '996'
CATEGORY_DLC = '21'
html_text = urlopen('http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=&sort_order=ASC&category1='+CATEGORY_GAMES).read().decode …Just a note for myself, a list of interesting Python tools for my next web scraping project: