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Book Info: Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Has Been Published

My latest book on Kali Linux has been published. It is an updated version of the previous BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing. My rough estimation, around 60% of the contents have been updated in accordance with the Kali Linux and the latest information in penetration testing.

You should be able to buy it via the Packt Publishing’s website or in the bookstores near you.

 

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A Simple Script to Get Top Passwords Cracked

Several days ago, I took a break from doing my work. I did an exercise to sharpened my “rusty” scripting skills. My goal was to develop a simple script using Ruby to get the top passwords cracked from MD5 Statistics page. This should be an interesting exercise for my brain. :D

Unfortunately, my scripting skills was so rusty, so it took me a while to code this simple script.

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Install CPAN’s Perl Module in openSUSE 11.x

Several days ago I had a chance to work with a Perl application again. Luckily, this application needs several Perl modules to be able to work.

The easiest way to install Perl modules is through CPAN. Fortunately there are several software packages that are available to help you working with CPAN. In openSUSE, the helper packages are :

After downloading them, I went to install those packages using the rpm :

# rpm -Uvh cpanm-1.5002-1.1.noarch.rpm perl-App-cpanminus-1.5002-1.1.x86_64.rpm
warning: cpanm-1.5002-1.1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID dcef338c: NOKEY

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]

1:perl-App-cpanminus ########################################### [ 50%]
2:cpanm ########################################### [100%]

Next, to install a Perl module, just use the following command (you need to run this command as “root“) :

cpanm <module_name>

For example, if I want to install a Perl module named Excel::Writer::XLSX here is the command to do it :

cpanm Excel::Writer::XLSX

--> Working on Excel::Writer::XLSX
Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JM/JMCNAMARA/Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.34.tar.gz ... OK

Configuring Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.34 ... OK
Building and testing Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.34 ... OK
Successfully installed Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.34
1 distribution installed

That’s it for today’s article. See you and take care.