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I found myself in the situation where I had to whois a large number of IP addresses and play with the output in Excel.

Thanks to Ben Schmitz's Net::Whois::IP Perl extension for looking up the whois information for IP addresses and some Google searching to locate some decent usage example (found in the whois.snortalog file in Jérémy Chartier's SnortAlog), I could put together the following lame script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
require "whois.snortalog";
use Net::Whois::IP;
$k = $ARGV[0];
whois();
print $ARGV[0] . "\t" . $inetnum . "\t" . $netname . "\n";

It expects an IP address in argument and outputs it along with its NetRange and NetName separated by tabulations.

Please post a comment if you improve it (e.g., adding error handling, etc.).

1. BackTrack
2. Operator
3. PHLAK
4. Auditor
5. L.A.S. Linux - Local Area Security
6. Knoppix-STD
7. Helix
8. F.I.R.E.
9. nUbuntu
10. INSERT Rescue Security Toolkit

As reported by Computerworld, Oracle released a tool designed to find default passwords in its database software (among several other critical patches).

While default accounts have been locked down in current versions of the database, Oracle 10g databases that have been upgraded from Oracle 7, Oracle8i, or Oracle9i may include them.

The Oracle Default Password Scanner consists in a SQL script accessible to Oracle customers in MetaLink Note 361482.1.

It should be noted that Cain & Abel carries features to crack and extract Oracle passwords.

Nothing new here, but it took me a couple hours to remember where I found this before (Google kept giving me results for commercial software).

Bo Brantén published FileDisk, a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that uses one or more files to emulate physical disks. This works with CD images too. :-)

FileDisk is packaged with Gilles Vollant's nifty WinImage, which is shareware.

Also, I read Microsoft published Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel to mount ISO image files as CD-Rom devices (the tool is unsupported, I have not tested it).

John the Ripper 1.7 has been out for nearly a month now (missed that).

As outlined in Solar Designer's announcement, JtR 1.7 became a lot faster (primarily at DES-based hashes), improves on the use of processor specific instructions sets (i.e. MMX on x86), adds an event logging framework and plenty of pre-configured make targets with optimal settings (including for OpenBSD).

Further to Anonym OS, OpenBSD Journal reports a new live OpenBSD CD has been released.   Compared to a vanilla installation of OpenBSD, OliveBSD adds a sexier Windows Manager and packs several graphic applications.

With live CD's and VMware offering free versions of its virtualization software, you can no longer complain that it is difficult to test new operating systems!

If you want to build your own live OpenBSD CD, have a look at this ONLamp article.