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Digging deeper into AWstats
AWstats is a popular program to analyze logfiles. The AWstats files themselves are neat little databases from which you can extract a wealth of information.
Jan 20, 2011 read more
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Finding out what hardware is in a box with lshw
Sometimes you need to know what hardware is in a system, but you don't have specs, or you don't have access to the system. Being able to extract this information directly from the system would then...
Jan 3, 2011 read more
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Requesting remote JSON or XML from a Smarty template
Occasionally it is necessary to get data from another domain to display on a webpage. Using Smarty templates it is very easy to fetch and display remote data in JSON or XML format.
Dec 18, 2010 read more
Binary audit tool released as FOSS project
Loohuis Consulting and Opendawn are proud to announce the release of the Binary Analysis Tool. This helps make it easier and cheaper to look inside binary code, find inadvertent compliance issues, and reduce uncertainty around the deployment of Free and Open Source Software.
The Binary Analysis Tool is a modular framework that assists compliance and due diligence activities by using the same type of approach that gpl-violations.org applies to discover license issues in consumer electronics. It supplements the manual analysis techniques traditionally used to audit code by:
- Looking into binary code compiled for multiple architectures;
- Detecting programs contained inside that code;
- Detecting fragments of programs inside that code.
The tool is focused on firmware analysis. It currently features automated extraction of the version and configuration of BusyBox , extraction of file systems , automated checking for the Linux kernel, brute force scanning of firmware and feeding known information through a knowledgebase.
The Binary Analysis Tool is freely available under the Apache license so that everyone can use, study, share and improve it, and participate in further development on the project homepage.
You can learn more about the tool and download it without charge at http://www.binaryanalysis.org