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The true reasons behind the LHC site defacement

2008-09-14 13:41:50

Many news sites have misinterpreted the message of the defacement of CERN's LHC website left by Greek crackers.

As a result the Greek media, which have never seen the real message, translated the misinterpreted text leading to public misinformation.

Thankfully, a friend of mine, George Chlapoutakis (also known as DarkSYN)
got his hands on a genuine screenshot of the defacement containing the full message in the Greek language and proceeded to write an accurate translation.

The purpose of GST (or Greek Security Team's) intrusion was neither to disrupt the experiment, nor to humiliate the CERN admins.
Their statement was against their adversaries in the Greek underground scene and the only reason they chose this site was due to it's extraordinary traffic.

The screenshot follows:

Read the full article on the GrayHatForensics blog...

APT repository for vget

2008-09-10 05:12:39

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.

Social bookmark buttons

2008-09-08 14:15:38

I've noticed significant traffic originating from social bookmark networks towards several of my projects,
so I thought I'd make your lives easier by adding social bookmarking buttons to SegFault's entries.

So... go nuts everybody. :)

Regards,
Zapotek.

vget now in Launchpad

2008-09-07 05:39:22

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.

vget added in Gentoo

2008-08-29 09:57:53

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.

Website updates

2008-07-28 10:28:49

Hello all,

Changes to SegFault's caching system were made so there is a possibility
that certain parts of the site may be unavailable due to bugs.

Also, Google Ads were added, to try and meet hosting expenses, as well as a Google search form.

If you find anything that doesn't work as it's supposed to, drop me a line.

Enjoy your visit,
Zapotek.

New Project: vget

2008-05-15 16:28:03

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.

Segfault IDS now activated

2008-02-14 22:49:04

Segfault now has an IDS.
Should anyone try to outsmart me he will be logged and his IP address will be published on your right, in the "Stupid people" 's list.
If the list is not visible we either truncated the logs or no one tried to hack this website yet, however the latter is very unlikely.

Although damage on Segfault cannot be inflicted, it's fun to watch people try.

Cheers,
Zapotek.

New Project: CDPSnarf

2008-02-04 18:03:30

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.

Segfault SVN Server is on-line

2008-02-04 17:19:05

We are pleased to announce that our SVN server is online.
You can start browsing our released source code from the Segfault SVN Repository front-end using your web browser or at svn://segfault.gr/ using an SVN client.
While browsing our repository front-end (Powered by WebSVN) you can download on-the-fly created tarballs of our latest code.
A link has been placed on your right for your convenience.

Should you find any bugs or difficulties accessing the aforementioned resources feel free to drop me a line.

Cheers,
Zapotek.

Down time

2008-01-29 14:48:26

We apologise for any inconvenience our down time has caused you.
The down time was caused due to our transfer to a new hosting company.
Good news is that we are now sitting on an OC-48 line and unlimited disk space as well as our own SVN server.

So stay tuned because new services and features are going to pop up.

Regards,
Zapotek.

Changes to the design

2007-12-01 19:00:34

New functionality is added to the site everyday and changes to the design are mandatory.
You can now find the most popular publications of SegFault on you left for easier navigation.

Enjoy your visit.

Added mod_rewrite support

2007-11-28 14:19:40

SegFault.Gr switched over to mod_rewrite for more search engine friendly URLs.
Not to worry though, your bookmarks and links to this site will still work fine.
Should you find any difficulties accessing parts of the site let us know.

Regards,
Zapotek.

New start for Segfault.Gr

2007-09-06 20:51:46

Test fly of SegFault.Gr.
Amazingly enough most of the traffic was international, even though the site was in Greek so the new SegFault.Gr is in English.

The website is totally rewritten and more cool stuff are going to be published.
Downtime is a possibility while we iron out random bugs.

Should you find any bugs please report them to zapotek@segfault.gr, preferably with "[BUG]" in the subject.