OVALdi - an open-source local vulnerability assessment scanner

OVALdi, also named the OVAL Interpreter, is an open-source tool developed by MITRE to demonstrate how the OVAL language may be used to scan a computer for vulnerabilities. This article provides a few hints about how to use this tool. ...

December 6, 2009

SSTIC08 - Dynamic Malware Analysis for Dummies

This article (written in French) was presented at the SSTIC symposium on the 6th June 2008. It describes several methods to perform malware analysis, especially on Windows platforms. It focuses in detail on dynamic analysis, also called runtime analysis or sandboxing. Dynamic malware analysis consists in running malicious code on a dedicated system, configured to record all its actions to determine its behaviour. It is then possible to quickly determine the nature of the malware and decide how to respond to an incident. The article also shows how to build a simple dynamic malware analysis lab at low cost, provides details about the methodology and suggests how to go further. ...

September 25, 2009

How to create X509 certificates for testing

This page provides a few methods to create X509 certificates for testing purposes. ...

September 13, 2009

How to install Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby-GTK2 on Windows

I had to search quite a bit to find the easiest way to install Ruby and ruby-gtk2 on Windows. Here's what I found so far: ...

July 1, 2009

How to run Ruby code from Python (Python-Ruby bridge)

There are several solutions if you need to run Ruby code from Python. It may be useful when you find an interesting Ruby module which has no equivalent in Python. ...

June 9, 2009

Python tips - How to easily convert a list to a string for display

There are a few useful tips to convert a Python list (or any other iterable such as a tuple) to a string for display. ...

March 9, 2009

Recommended Python modules and tools

Collection of useful Python modules and tools, sorted by use case. ...

February 16, 2009

How to parse configuration files in Python

There are several solutions to parse configuration files in Python. ...

January 23, 2009