'hex' Category
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HeX 2.0, codename “Bonobo”, released!
October 5, 2008After around 8 months of development, HeX 2.0, codename “Bonobo“, is released! HeX is a liveCD developed by the rawpacket team that is based on FreeBSD 7.0 and designed to be used for network security monitoring. There are a lot of new features and a lot of bugfixes that went into this release, but before […]
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Flowtag FreeBSD port
July 14, 2008I just finished up the FreeBSD port for Chris and Scholar’s flowtag. Flowtag is a neat tool for tagging network streams for collaboration and analysis. I’ve submitted the port to FreeBSD’s mailing list, so I’m hoping for upstream soon. In the meantime, you can download the port files on my miscellaneous page. In other news, […]
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GTD and desktop workflow/setup, revisited
May 23, 2008UPDATE: Sorry about the RSS confusion with this post, it’s being very strange. I hate WordPress binding “publish” to Ctrl+P Anyone that might have read my blog for a long time might remember this post about how I do GTD (Getting To Done) on my machine(s). Well, I decided it’s been quite a while since […]
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NSM-Console version 0.7 release
April 27, 2008First off, I apologize for the lack of posts here lately, I’ve been trying to come up with something good to post, because I’m just not a fan of rehashing things other blogs post, or commenting on news stories. Hopefully I’ll be able to contribute more soon Now down to the real post, NSM-Console 0.7 […]
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Hex 1.0.3 released!
February 13, 2008We just released Hex 1.0.3, the Chinese New Year release, although it’s closer to the Valentine’s day release. Congratulations to all the Hex developers for fixing bugs and adding features! You can grab the iso here. [md5] [sha256] Or, grab the iso from the mirror. [md5] [sha256] Since Geek00l already covered a list of the […]
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User-submitted modules: flowtag and clamscan
February 11, 2008I’d like to point out a couple of user-submitted modules for NSM-Console that are now included in the distribution. Firstly, scholar01 has created a ‘flowtag’ module for NSM-Console to use Chris Lee’s excellent Flowtag software for categorizing and tagging network flow for a packet capture. Thanks for the submission scholar01! Secondly, JohnQPublic has created a […]
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NSM-Console version 0.5 release
February 5, 2008That’s right, no development release this time around. I’ve been trying to get version 0.5 all finished for the Hex 1.0.3 release, and I’m happy to present the newest NSM-Console release! Firstly, you can download NSM-Console version 0.5 here: http://writequit.org/projects/nsm-console/files/nsm-console-0.5.tar.gz Mirror here: https://secure.redsphereglobal.com/data/dakrone/files/nsm-console-0.5.tar.gz Like always, let’s go over some of the new features in this […]
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Hex and NSM-Console writeup in February ISSA Journal
February 4, 2008Russ, the author of holisticinfosec.org has kindly written up a review of the Hex NSM-liveCD in the February edition of his ‘toolsmith’ column for the ISSA journal. The column is a good 3-4 pages about Hex as well as some of the tools included on the distribution. There’s even a page dedicated to NSM-Console (Although […]
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How to enable 1280×800 resolution in Parallels for X11
January 31, 2008This topic really sucks to search for, way too many different results without any actual clarity, so here’s how I was able to get it working: Firstly, power down the image and edit the configuration options for your image, click on the “Video options”. Check ‘Enable custom screen resolutions’ and add the resolution (in this […]
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Switching from fluxbox to wmii on Hex
January 30, 2008Don’t get me wrong, I love fluxbox, I just enjoy experimenting with other window managers and decided I’d finally try the daunting wmii (turns out, not very daunting at all). So, here’s a quick rundown on getting wmii working on Hex 1.0.3BETA (this will work on pretty much any other Hex 1.* release as well). […]