Kraken bot cracked open to reveal source code Security vendor
May 28, 2008 – 6:00 amKraken bot cracked open to reveal source code
Security vendor PC Tools has published the source code and mathematical algorithm used in the domain name generation technique applied by the latest Kraken bot variant, Bobax. Analysis by researchers at PC Tools has uncovered how Bobax talks to control centres via HTTP using pseudo-random DNS names with a variable seven to twelve character length followed by a number of default suffixes in order to evade host intrusion prevention systems. Of course, commands and data will be encrypted for transmission but there are also randomly generated faked headers employed in a further attempt to stay…
TFS Event Handler Update
The TFS Event Handler project on CodePlex has been updated today to take care of a number of bugs that were introduced in the last update. These have all been fixed and we are currently dogfooding with the new release. The Event Handlers have also been updated to take care of some issues that we fou…
Martin Hinshelwood
I’ve been doing some experiments to find out if it’s possible to execute NUnit on a Silverlight project. I knew that Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend both host Silverlight for use in the designer window. It turns out that rather than host a separate instance of the CoreCLR, the designer simply loads the Silverlight assemblies into the host runtime. This simplifies the business of creating a compatible unit testing framework considerably!
With a little bit twiddling, I’ve managed to tweak the ‘nunit.framework’ assembly so that it’s compatible with Silverlight projects. In order for your tests to execute successfully, you also need to ensure that all Silverlight assemblies (except ‘mscorlib’) are set to ‘Copy Local: True’. After this is done you can run, debug and even do code coverage on your Silverlight unit tests!
Because creating one of these projects is a fiddle to set up, I’ve created Silverlight NUnit Project template that does the work for you. To install the template simply open the ‘SilverlightNUnitProject.vsi’ file and ignore the unsigned content warning. Once installed, you will find it under the ‘Visual C# / Silverlight’ section of the ‘New Project’ dialog. You can download the template from here.
To execute one or more unit tests you should use ‘Run Test(s)’ rather than ‘Test With > Silverlight’.
In summary you now have 3 options when testing Silverlight projects.
- For unit testing you can create a Silverlight NUnit Project and use the usual TestDriven.Net commands.
- For integration testing (within the context of a browser) you can use the Silverlight Testing Framework.
- For spelunking individual methods inside the CoreCLR you can use ‘Test With > Silverlight‘.
I’d be interested to hear how you get on.
Activate your iPhone using .NET 2.0
It appears that Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) is now a .NET developer. He has created a little .NET 2.0 application to activate your iPhone without giving any personal information to AT&T. The application runs as an activation server on your local machine. You then redirect albert.apple.com to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. Zac Bowling is attempting to get it working on the Mac via Mono.
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