We 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 most important changes [...]
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February 13, 2008
Hex 1.0.3 released!
February 11, 2008
User-submitted modules: flowtag and clamscan
I’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 ‘clamscan’ module [...]
February 5, 2008
NSM-Console version 0.5 release
That’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://navi.eight7.org/~hinmanm/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 release:
Alias command
You can [...]
February 4, 2008
Hex and NSM-Console writeup in February ISSA Journal
Russ, 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 [...]
January 31, 2008
How to enable 1280×800 resolution in Parallels for X11
This 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 case, [...]
January 30, 2008
Switching from fluxbox to wmii on Hex
Don’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). [...]
January 16, 2008
NSM-Console version 0.4 release
Well, it has barely been any length of time and there’s already a new release of NSM-Console, there are so many features that I’ve been coding like crazy to get them all done. First, let’s start with the downloading:
http://navi.eight7.org/~hinmanm/files/nsm-console-0.4.tar.gz
[mirror] https://secure.redsphereglobal.com/data/dakrone/files/nsm-console-0.4.tar.gz
And, for anyone interested, here’s a rundown of the most notable new features:
Additional encoding/decoding options
You can [...]
January 11, 2008
Decoding the SANS Christmas packet challenge using only NSM-Console
In my never-ending quest to find justification for writing NSM-Console, I hereby present the following tutorial on how to decode the SANS Christmas packet challenge using nothing but NSM-Console:
I’m going to be using NSM-Console version 0.4-DEVEL, which adds the features that allow this analysis to be performed without external tools. You can get the development [...]
January 11, 2008
Hex and NSM-Console source now browsable
You can now directly browse the source code for both the Hex liveCD and the source code for NSM-Console directly from the Rawpacket Hex trac.
If you’re interested in upcoming features in NSM-Console, you can check out the latest TODO file here.
Thanks go to spoonfork who switched us over from CVS to SVN without any major [...]
January 8, 2008
NSM-Console version 0.3 release
Yep, I’ve just been cranking out code lately, so I am proud to present the 0.3 release of nsm-console!
You can download NSM-Console here:
http://navi.eight7.org/~hinmanm/files/nsm-console-0.3.tar.gz
This release was focused a bit more on usability, features and bugfixes rather than the addition of new modules, however, there were still a couple that were added. Since this release has some [...]
