Category Archives: Security

Installing Wireshark on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

By Jostein | Published: October 29, 2009
After upgrading to Snow Leopard, one of the few things that stopped working for me was Wireshark, a really cool network analyzer I’m planning to write more about later. What happened was that at startup you get a long list of error messages, and then no network interfaces could be found. Luckily, Michael Gracie has [...]
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Learning web-security through penetration testing

By Jostein | Published: October 26, 2009
At the ROOTS 2009 conference I attended a workshop with Martin Knobloch called “Application Security – Awareness.”  Martin works for OWASP, The Open Web Application Security Project, and they have created a lot of cool stuff.  On the workshop we got an introduction to WebScarab and WebGoat, and for learning how a lot of software [...]
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Spoofing your MAC-address in Snow Leopard

By Jostein | Published: October 26, 2009
This might not be the most useful hack, but in some scenarios it might be good to know.  And it does show those who believe that blacklisting MAC-addresses on their access point is a good security feature that they are mistaken. For example the system they used at the college I lived in at the [...]
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