DK 'Log

While coding the session monitor a couple of weeks ago I developed a quick script which could query ntop for session information. Jaime started using it for graphing now, so I thought it might be useful to soembody. Please find the code below.

After having used their service for quite some time I received the announcement that they wanted to start charging users a samll fee. I'm talking about Zattoo. Quoting their site:

Well, completely free obviously not anymore, but that doesn't matter. I don't know how well known / widely used this service is outside of Europe, but I've got many frieds here that actually used it.

Fact is I wanted to see a soccer match last evening on my computer, in order to let my GF watch here stuff on the big screen. I decided to pay the 2.40 euro (as can be seen here, sending the two sms with ZAT to 7766. After two hours I still didn't have my code (so bye bye match) and after 24 hours and two mails, both using the support form as well as the info email address I'm still waiting for an answer/activation code.

2.40 ain't that much money, but things like these are very annoying. Until I get an answer from them I consider this new "pay-per-view" service a true SCAM, con, swindle, grift, gaffle, bunko, flim flam, stratagem, or scheme (wikipedia ;-) ), since after using the service for a couple of months and getting confident with the people at Zattoo I've paid for a service which I haven't received yet, there's no info about reclamations, payment confirmation, receipt, etc etc...

Update 2008/08/18 - First contact from Zattoo, quite dissapointing

Got a mail last night from them:

So next task: write to the friendly people at the other company. I feel like this will take a long long time...

My mail to the new company, I wonder how long it will take them to answer:

Remember the pictures I posted some months ago while we were moving in ? Well, office looks much better now, so I decided to bring the cam along and take some pictures. Our office is situated between two emblematic building in Madrid, the Torres Blancas and the Puerta de America hotel.

AV Office 2008/08

In the meantime we're still working on the 1.0.6 updater, which will feature, among others:

Antivirus (clamav)

Mod-security

GLPI

The new nessus feed

System upgrade

Security fixes

Automatic Nagios config

Bugfixes and more...

The directive editor and reporting probably won't make it into this release, since we want to release before we merge all of the GSoC 2008 data into the main CVS.

Back with a quick status update. I hope this will be the last "misc" message in a while, so I can start uploading useful content again.

First of all, I hope everything's having a nice summer (or winter ;-)). I had my small share of holiday too, and expect to have another week of two during the next months.

We've decided to start working on an alternative feed for Nessus after Tenable having changed licensing again.

Excluding even non-profit organizations and testing purposes completely from the feed seems contrary to the open source spirits, so we'll be investing a considerable amount of effort and money into providing a high quality feed for everyone.

The final workings of it is still unclear, but we're aiming at the Sourcefire model: if you subscribe you'll get them instantly, everybody else gets them with a slight delay (we're discussing a one to four week delay).

One of the goals we've got is getting a good bunch of people interested on this and willing to participate (sort of a Consortium maybe, although we're starting it internally right now) so if you could please share this with people who could have the skill/knowledge to contribute to this, I'd be more than grateful.

Last but not least we're looking into a way of ensuring that the effort put into this by everyone won't be abused in any ways, so if anybody has got suggestions about model/licensing/etc it would be great to hear them.

Edit: Due to licensing warnings from Tenable I had to rewrite some terminology.