After approx. 2 months of development version 0.1 of the Arachni Framework is ready.
And so is the documentation, both for users and prospective developers.

So go ahead and give the first Beta version a shot:

git clone git://github.com/Zapotek/arachni.git

Homepage: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni
Downloads: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni/downloads
Documentation: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni/wiki
Feedback/Bug reports: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni/issues

I think that you’ll enjoy it. :)

Hello dear readers,

As those of you who read my blog already know,
I am developing an FOSS web application vulnerability scanner called Arachni.

The problem is that I don't have any live servers to test it on and I don't
want to harass random sys admins and their servers.

So I'll make you a deal.

If you let me test Arachni against your web applications I'll report the vulnerabilities Arachni finds, if any, to you immediately.
For free of course....

And you'll also earn a nice acknowledgment on Arachni's website, my blog and http://www.segfault.gr -- if you want to.

If you're interested contact me using this form: http://trainofthought.segfault.gr/contact/

Cheers,
Zapotek.

Those of you who read my last blog post already know the troubles that someone has to go through to mount a raw image with VMware.
And then salvation came with the manual solution I presented that works on, probably, every system.

Well, I thought why not automate the process?
After all LiveView has already done most of the work required, and it's open source.

So I started hacking up some Java and created a nice little utility that analyses raw images and automatically creates appropriate .vmdk files to be used with VMware enabling you to mount the image right away.

It's already on SourceForge, feel free to test it and let me know how it worked for you. :)

Project page: http://raw2vmdk.segfault.gr

Ubuntu/Debian users can now stay up-to-date with vget's new versions via my PPA on Launchpad.
Add the following lines:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zapotek/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/zapotek/ubuntu hardy main

in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file and:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vget

Et voila...you now have vget's latest version installed. :)

Available architectures are:

• AMD64
• IA32

Regards,
Zapotek.

vget has been added in Launchpad.
New releases will be added there as well along with a Bazaar mirror of Segfault's SVN repository of vget.

Launchpad also enables users of vget to ask questions and file bug reports as well as interact with the code via the Bazaar repository.

Furthermore, Deb packages will be added which can be obtained from my
"Personal Package Archive" using APT.

Everything is not yet in order as I'm currently organizing stuff but it'll all be ready soon.

Regards,
Zapotek.

As of today vget 0.3.5 has been added in the Gentoo repositories (Thanks Hanno).
You can find it under "net-misc".

Click here to visit the repository page.

Another project was added today.
Its name is vget and it is a Linux video downloader for the Veoh service.
You can freely download videos from Veoh with no registration, no personal data, full-time and high-resolution.

Enjoy everyone,
Zapotek.

A new project joined our little family today.
Its name is CDPSnarf and it is a CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) sniffer written in C using the PCAP library.

Use with care and enjoy,
Zapotek.