Localipsum is a simple python program that aim to generate sample text for designers and developers as the well known Lorem Ipsum website. The main difference is that it use your own dictionaries on your computer.

I continued to play with the vulnhub virtual machine an started the TopHatSec - Fart Knocker. This VM is an Ubuntu 14.04 32 bits.

The goal of this challenge is to break into the machine and root it.

If you beat the box then please shoot me an email! Have fun guys! P.S. I got the word "Fart Knocker" from watching beavis and butthead back in the day. Otherwise you kids might not understand :)

There was a lot of changes lately on the blog. I rewrite the urls, I moved the notes section, I displayed the categories in the menu, add a favicon and add a markdown plugin.

I wrote more "about" pages, separating the "about me" and "about website" pages and creating a sports pages with my time for each race I run.

I also tweak the theme by adding icons, adding borders around code blocs, putting the same CSS to pages as to articles and some minors improvements.

I continued to play with the vulnhub virtual machine and started the TopHatSec - Freshly.

"The goal of this challenge is to break into the machine via the web and find the secret hidden in a sensitive file. If you can find the secret, send me an email for verification. :)"

This weekend (4 April 2015) take place the qualification round for "Nuit du Hack" CTF from 00:01 to 23:59. It was a Jeopardy CTF.

I have participated with the Zenk-Security team. At the end we got the 7th position and are qualified for the final which would be a Attack-Defense CTF in Paris in June.

I publish here the ones for the challenges I participated to and make a writeup of. All the writeup for this CTF are accessible here (in french).

The first of April is always the occasion for some great pranks. 2015 was a great year, as the CERN confirmed the existence of the Force, Google published a mirroring website and gentoo an old fashion one. In France we got a security event call SSTIC for which the tickets are very rare therefore the SSTIC challenge allows the ones with the flag to reserve a ticket. An April prank challenge was post yesterday.

I work on a Windows machine for my dally job. On my personal desktop I use Arch Linux and i3 therefore my music player is in curses and does not need any mouse. In fact I use cmus. So I tried to replace my old media player clementine with cmus on Windows in cygwin.

For that we need to compile cmus from sources.

I host my own services with a web access, for my mail and calendar I used Roundcube a wonderful webmail and agendav for my calendar. Nevertheless I am used to have everything in one place (thank you Google for the bad habit) and agendav was no more working on my …

Recently I put unwanted data (a password) in one of my git commit. This commit was not push to an public server (like github or bitbucket) therefore there was no real security breach other than my git history.

The problem was to remove the data by rewriting the git history …

Short news from by blog:

Yesterday I publish my blog with a brand new theme. The main reason is to not have the classical bootstrap theme like everybody else. Nevertheless I am no graphic artist that is why I use a theme designed by someone else.

The theme is based …