testing

Kali Tools – Linux distribution for penetration testing

Kali Tools – a special purpose Linux distribution for performing penetration testing. A long list of tools is split into the following categories:

Information gathering
Vulnerability analysis
Wireless attacks
Web applications
Exploitation tools
Forensic tools
Stress testing
Sniffing & spoofing
Password attacks
Maintaining access
Reverse engineering
Hardware hacking
Reporting tools

On test strings

I’ve seen my fair share of test strings, varying from simple ‘test’, ‘foo’, and ‘blah’ to automatically re-generated Lorem Ipsum paragraphs. But I don’t really remember seeing anything more weird than this one:

$string = "I am not a question. How was your day? Sex On Hard Concrete Always Hurts The Orgasmic Area. Why does custard taste so lumpy when you use breast milk?";

From this StackOverflow answer. Is there a tool that does this? I wouldn’t mind using it in my daily work.

Bitbucket Pipelines Beta announced

BitBucket blog announces Pipelines Beta (coincidentally after I’ve spent about a week playing with Jenkins). These guys are dropping their Bamboo Cloud CI solution and instead provide this:

It looks a lot like TravisCI, but on steroids! Very good news!

Continuous Integration Servers

Here’s a list of Continuous Integration (CI) servers / solutions for those who is still trying to choose:

Via volkswagen.

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code

a good programmer knows they have to do terrible things to their code. Do it because if you don’t, I guarantee you other people will, and when they do, they will either walk away or create a support ticket. I’m not sure which is worse.

Jeff Atwood