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When you manage a hosting company, you have many clients who can’t upgrade their software. The only way to keep these clients is to maintain old versions of packages such as PHP. Otherwise, you have to stop the service. Today I’m migrating a historical server, with clients who use an old version of PHP (PHP4) …

It is not enough to plan everything: you must also be able to improvise and adapt. Christophe Casalegno ​

“Patrick J. Volkerding” announces that Slackware 13.37 has been released. Nearly a year in the making, you will appreciate the performance and stability that can only come with careful and rigorous testing. Slackware 13.37 uses the 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel (hence our new $SLACKWARE_VERSION.$KERNEL_VERSION naming system used for this release ;-), and also ships with 2.6.38.4 …

IPChat is a ncurses-based chat program released under the GNU General Public License v2 which operates peer to peer , identifying contacts by IP address. It features a nice interface with colors, easy line editing, line history, terminal window resizing, a persistent contact list, online help, separate windows for each contact, and much more. IPChat …

Moscrack is a Perl application under the GPLv2 licence, designed to facilitate cracking WPA keys in parallel on a group of computers or a cluster. This is accomplished using Mosix clustering software and/or simple SSH access to a number of nodes. It works by reading a word list from STDIN or a file, breaking it …

ZABBIX is an enterprise-class distributed open source monitoring solution , released under the GPL , designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, and other IT resources. Zabbix supports distributed and Web-based monitoring, auto-discovery, real-time monitoring, SLA assurance, trending, and more. Zabbix is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial …

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. John the Ripper is also a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types commonly found on …

Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that lets you visualize your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the framework’s advanced capabilities. Armitage is a graphical frontend that makes Metasploit usable for people who understand hacking but haven’t mastered the Metasploit Framework . If you want to learn Metasploit and grow into the …