Archive for December, 2007

What Happens When You Do “sudo rm -rf /”?

Yeah, about that. Don’t try this at home or anywhere else for that matter. Unless ofcourse you are sucidal and want to delete everything you have in your linux box.
Or, you could just see what happens in this video:

Fuzz: The Stress Test Tool

Fuzz stress-test programs by giving them random input The fuzz generator is designed to attack certain kinds of software and expose one particular kind of bug common in software. This is the situation where the programmer implicitly makes some assumptions about the data stream that the program will be parsing. If the data stream is [...]

Fake Root with fakeroot

Fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation, by setting LD_PRELOAD to a library with alternative versions of getuid(), stat(), etc. This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb .rpm etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership. Without fakeroot one would [...]

Denial of Service Capable Auditing of Networks: Doscan

doscan is a tool to quickly scan your network for machines listening on a TCP port, opening thousands of TCP connections in parallel.
Highlights

High scanning rate: five to ten minutes per 100,000 addresses (which are sparsely populated with hosts), with rather conservative timeouts.
Load distribution: doscan scans the addresses in a seemingly random order. If your scan [...]

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