Network Emulation and Artificial Delay/Packet Loss/etc

Network emulation has always been a major issue for researchers. Let's say you are implementing a system/application and you want to know how does it cope with network "stressing".

Or you may want to provide various information about the QoS of a protocol or application.

Using Netcat: Remote Admin, Messages, Network I/O all together

If you are in any way familiar with Unix Networking, you might have stumbled upon netcat.


Netcat is often referred as the "Swiss Army Knife" of TCP/IP. You could use it as a handy port scanner, whenever nmap is out of reach, you can transfer files between workstations, set up a temporary Web Server, troubleshoot network issues, use it as a telnet client, etc.

ARP Man-In-The-Middle Attacks and ARP Poisoning

Background:
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is a protocol mainly implemented by IPv4 networks (to be replaced in IPv6 by NDP). It is used to map IP addresses with MAC addresses, mainly in local area networking. I am going to demonstrate a common exploitation technique.

Linux "Safe" Restart

Many people (especially linux newcomers) don't know that there is a "safe" way to reboot your system, in case everything else fails in order to get your system unstuck and running.

Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Borring

Sounds confusing?

New Blog!

Welcome to my new blog!

Hope I can post some interesting articles in time here!