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Ver. 1.0.2 Release

Ho ho ho, Christmas is around the corner …..

For the sake of it, the HeX development team would like to present you HeX 1.0.2 - The Christmas Release!!!!! Get it now!

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Official Annoucement
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We are no longer calling this project HeX liveCD but now simply HeX, as it has expanded quickly and the liveCD is one of the project under HeX.

Two sub projects will be launched under this release as well -
- NSM Console
- liveUSB

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NSM Console
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Matthew(Dakrone) is the main developer of NSM Console, here’s the short description about it -

NSM Console (Network Security Monitoring Console) is a framework for performing analysis on packet capture files. It implements a modular structure to allow for an analyst to quickly write modules of their own without any programming language experience which means you can quickly integrate all the other NSM based tools to it. Using these modules a large amount of pcap analysis can be performed quickly using a set of global (as well as per-module) options. NSM Console also aims to be simple to run and easy to understand without lots of learning time.

If you want more information about what it is (and what it does), check out this introductory post -

http://thnetos.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/nsm-console-a-framework-for-running-things/

You can access NSM Console by clicking the menu -> NSM-Tools -> NSM Console

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HeX liveUSB
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JJC(enhanced) created the liveUSB initially so instead of using a read-only liveCD, you can use a read-write USB thumb drive. Here’s the short description of it -

After receiving numerous requests to create a HeX liveUSB Key Image we decided to go ahead and build one. This image includes all of the standard tools that you will find on HeX and it is writable; so you can update things (signatures etc), make changes and so on.

To use HeX liveUSB, you simply download the image and dd it to your USB Key (Thumbdrive). The 1.0.2 liveUSB is released inline with liveCD. However JJC will create the liveUSB with more spaces in case you want to store stuffs inside it soon.

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Other Addition(Surprise)
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Christmas Gifts for the Analyzt
1. HeXtra 1.0.2(Very soon because it needs to be tested with HeX 1.0.2 before release).
2. aimsnarf - aim protocol analyzer script.
3. argi-PASVFTP.sh - argus 3 passive ftp extraction script.
4. 4 additional PADS signatures.
5. dsniff and honeysnap(thanks darkone for porting this).
6. Add rp-Reference under analyzt home directory, and there’s script resources.sh which will download all the useful docs, papers or articles which may assist analyzt wannabe.

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Christmas Gifts for Everyone
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Everyone loves eye candy, so do we! Since we call this as The Christmas Release, here’s your Christmas gift(The Shiny & New HeX Christmas Wallpaper) -

HeX-WhiteChristmas

HeX-DarkChristmas

Thanks Vickson again for his artistic skillz!

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Bug Fixes
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1. unicornscan run time error
2. svn run time error
3. lsof run time error
4. firefox startup issue
5. pidgin and liferea dbus issue
6. CDROM-Mount.sh syntax error
7. script command issue
8. ping setuid issue

Other known major or minor issues in the Base System are fixed, thanks to chfl4gs_.

Ver. 1.0.2 Release

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