Year: 2013

  • Kali Linux – the new toy from Offensive Security

    Kali Linux – the new toy from Offensive Security

    I’m very pleased to write this down – Offensive Security (the maker of Backtrack distro) came up earlier this month with a stable release of their new penetration distribution called Kali. It comes as s BackTrack successor but on the other hand it is a completely new build. There are some new stuff compared to BT5 in terms of tool…

  • HTTP Basic Authentication Dictionary and Brute-force attacks with Burp Suite

    HTTP Basic Authentication Dictionary and Brute-force attacks with Burp Suite

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    HTTP Basic Authentication brief explanation HTTP supports several authentication mechanisms. Upon a request for resource within a protected space the server should respond with authentication challenge using WWW-Authenticate header. In order to receive authorization the client should send requested identification information using Authorization header. When the client is not authorised a 401 “Unauthorised” response status…

  • GoodBye Google Reader

    GoodBye Google Reader

    Google is retiring my favorite RSS reader 🙁 what a pity … so … decided to move to a desktop RSS reader but there it is … the sync question – how I’m going to sync between 2 or 3 of my devices. So I will give LiFeRea a shot and see how it will go. If anyone…

  • Problem with Ubuntu wfica Citrix client loading too slow

    Problem with Ubuntu wfica Citrix client loading too slow

    Last couple of days I was trying to wrap my head around a problem with the Ubuntu Citrix wfica client connecting to a Secure Gateway. Sometimes it was “loading” quite fast and sometimes it was taking up to 30 sec to start connecting the target server. The wfica process was listed as running but no…

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