Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

WhatsApp passes 500,000,000 active users

According to the WhatsApp blog:

Thanks to all of you, half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users. In the last few months, we’ve grown fastest in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia, and our users are also sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day. We could go on, but for now, it’s more important that we get back to work – because here at WhatsApp, we’re just getting started.

Now that’s quite impressive, not only for the number of active users but for the amount of the activity as well.

heartleech – atypical “heartbleed” tool with a few more features

heartleech

heartleech
A typical “heartbleed” tool. What makes this different is:

  • autopwn (-a) that does all the steps needed to get private key
  • post-handshake (encrypted) heartbeats instead of during handshake
  • evades Snort IDS rules
  • loops making repeated requests (-l <loopcount>)
  • dumps binary data to file (-f <filename>)
  • IPv4 or IPv6 (-v <IPver>)
  • full 64k heartbleeds

huginn – build agents that monitor and act on your behalf

huginn – build agents that monitor and act on your behalf

What is Huginn?
Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed event flow graph. Think of it as Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.

agent flow

WordPress 3.9 “Smith” released

A brand new and shiny version of the best CMS ever – WordPress – has been released.  Version 3.9, code-named “Smith” brings quite a few noticeable improvements.  Mostly, these are around the post editor – a new version of TinyMCE, previews for galleries and playlists for audio and video, in-editor image resize and drag-n-drop file uploads.  Also, widget settings were much improved, especially with the live preview before save.  Watch the quick release video and read more here.