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Information gathering with BlackWidow

Offensive Security

BlackWidow is a python script that automatically crawls a website to gather information like phone numbers, email addresses, form URL's etc. Very useful during the reconnaissance phase!

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MARK release 0.0.28

MARk

Today we released version 0.0.28 of our Multi-Agent Ranking Framework (MARK).

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Manage VirtualBox with PHP

PHP

phpVirtualBox is a well known web interface for managing virtual machines. There is however another less known library that allows to manage virtual machines from your own PHP applications : php-vbox-api. The API allows you to do stuff like:

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Understanding Laravel middleware : admin users

Laravel PHP

In Laravel, a Middleware is basically a piece of code that should be executed for every http request. Middlewares are typically used to:

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Distributed k-nn graphs and similarity search

News

Today we are presenting distributed k nearest neighbors (k-nn) graphs and similarity search algorithms at the ULB.

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Modify your static IP on Ubuntu server

Sysadmin

This seems easy, but... When you modify your static IP address in /etc/network/interfaces, the old IP is not removed. The new IP is simply added to your interface.

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Disable user registration in your Laravel application

Laravel

Laravel is a powerful framework that comes with a lot of boilerplate code to handle most common cases. One of these is users management (register, login, reset password etc.)

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Easy testing with Python doctest and GitLab

Python GitLab

When developing some new Python code, you will usually open another terminal to test your function or class using a Python shell... and repeat until you obtain the expected result.

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Type hinting in Python, and testing with GitLab

Python GitLab

Python is a dynamically typed language, meaning that the type of a variable can change during execution. This participates to the user friendliness of the language.

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Collecting and processing NetFlow on Ubuntu

NetFlow is a feature that was introduced on Cisco routers around 1996 that provides the ability to collect and process network traffic summary.

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CyberSecurity Tournament 2020

News

In February 2020, ULB will organize a CyberSecurity Tournament for students. This is a unique opportunity to challenge your skills and get in touch with major companies of the field.

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Create a local Python pip repository

Python

Python is a very interesting programming language because it is possible to prototype a lot of things in a few minutes. The Python Package manager, called pip, is a very simple tool that allows the user to import/install easily any Python package and its dependencies.

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