Nino’s blog

I was messing around with the FaceTime app to see how it sets up and disconnects calls. To view the traffic I set the phones proxy to a Paros session, which replaces any SSL certs with its own. On previous versions of the IPhone firmware when it received a self signed/out of date certificate it would present the user with a generic accept decline option and not give a lot of detail.

It seems apple are pulling their finger out and the error is much more verbose allowing the user to see exactly what’s wrong.

I’m doing quite a bit of onsite testing at the minute and I currently have nessus results for 30+ /24 networks.  It can be quite time consuming to weed out the crap findings of each file so i wrote a quick and dirty python script to combine the .nessus output for each range:

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#! /usr/bin/python
import xml.dom.minidom
import urllib2
import urllib
import os
import time
import sys
 
def main():
        #write out the start of the xml shizzle
        fileHandle = open ( 'combined.nessus', 'a' )
        fileHandle.write ( '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<NessusClientData>\n<Report>\n<ReportName>Combined</ReportName>\n' )
 
        #list the  files
        fileList = []
        counter = 0
        for root, subFolders, files in os.walk(sys.argv[1]):
                for file in files:
                        fileList.append(os.path.join(root,file))
 
        #enumerate the files and pick out the .nessus files
        for fname in fileList:
                if ('nessus' in fname) and ('combined.nessus' not in fname) :
                        counter += 1
                        print "Parsing: " + fname
                        from xml.dom import minidom
                        xmldoc = minidom.parse(fname)
                        reflist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('ReportHost')
                        for x in range(0 , reflist.length):
                                fileHandle.write ( reflist[x].toxml() )
 
        #write the end of the xml
        fileHandle.write ( '</Report> \n </NessusClientData>')
        fileHandle.close()
        print 'Combined a total of ' + str(counter) + ' files.'
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    main()

  combine_nessus.py (1.4 KiB, 44 hits)

Give the script your top level directory as the first argument and it will recusively find the .nessus files and ouput a file called combined.nessus then you can import it into the nessus client / parse as you normally would, job done

update:pasted the wrong code snippet, the attachment was correct tho!

Update 2: found and issue where by if you had the script generate the output file in the same directory that the .nessus files are the script would eat its own head, added a quick check.

I have my iPhone plugged into the A5 using the Audi AMI function but it seems that the between the mighty Apple and Audi none of them thought of normalising the audio tracks.  The result being bleeding ears as the audio levels jump from a low to high track!

No problem to fix tho if your using Linux, literally 5 commands ( 4 if you don’t want to screen it ):

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user@host:~$ apt-cache search mp3 | grep volume
normalize-audio - adjusts the volume of WAV, MP3 and OGG files to a standard volume level
user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install normalize-audio
[sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
....snip....
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
user@host:~$ normalize-audio --help
Usage: normalize-audio [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Normalize volume of multiple audio files
....snip....
Report bugs to chrisvaill@gmail.com.
user@host:~$ screen -S mp3_normal
user@host:~$ find /media/storage/music/ -iname \*.mp3  -exec  normalize-audio {} \;
Computing levels...
 Chocolate.mp3      99% done, ETA 00:00:00 (batch  99% done, ETA 00:00:00)
Applying adjustment of -4.82dB to /media/storage/music/Snow Patrol/Final Straw/Chocolate.mp3...
find: ânormalize-audioâ terminated by signal 11ch   0% done, ETA 00:00:00)
Computing levels...
 Tiny Little Fract  99% done, ETA 00:00:00 (batch  99% done, ETA 00:00:00)
Applying adjustment of -5.55dB to /media/storage/music/Snow Patrol/Final Straw/Tiny Little Fractures.mp3...
find: ânormalize-audioâ terminated by signal 11ch   0% done, ETA 00:00:00)
Computing levels...
 Gleaming Auction.  61% done, ETA 00:00:02 (batch  61% done, ETA 00:00:02)
[ctrl+a+d]
user@host:~$ echo $profit

Job done!

Alice in Wonderland

With Tim Burton directing and staring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and a music score by Danny Elfman you already know your in for the usual Tim Burton movie experience, and don’t get me wrong its great but is it getting a bit old……

Alvin and The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel

The name says it all really, I wanted to pull my eye balls out, tho one of the girl chipmunks was kind of hot……

Green Zone

Billed as better than The Bourne Identity series I was expecting big things from this, sadly all i got was a Hurt Locker rip off with camera shots so shaky i was nearly re producing my popcorn and fanta.  Still good for a watch if your a jarhead.

Hurt Locker

Excellent movie but i don’t know what sets it aside from all the other war movies and why it did so well in the Oscars, definitely one to see and pretty gritty in places.

Edge of Darkness

I honestly forgot what the movie title was and i had to IMDB it, yes it was that bad i had removed it from my mind!

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Caught this just before it ended at the cinema and I’m glad we did!  Excellent movie quite a good cast and Steve Coogan is brilliant in it!

Im getting shot my Mazda 3 and getting a rather spanking Audi A5 Sline:

Im looking to sell the mazda around the end of Feb so if you know anyone after one give me a shout.

Some pictures of the Mazda here:

Linky

The car is 1.5 years old with 20K miles on the clock and 9 months tax with the following spec

Petrol 1.6 Ltr

Leather bound steering wheel and gear stick
6 CD Changer
Piano black interior
Parrot hands free kit
Rear parking sensors

Cheers

Nino