Group51

Basically, we are a group of people who love to play with computers and push it to the max. We are a group of all skill levels from beginner to advanced. We learn, and have fun.

We do have a strong interest in security. There’s nothing better than to find a security hole within legal boundaries. We have failed our mission if we have to break the law. Breaking into a building is easy… anyone can smash a door in. Accidentaly discovering that there is no door on one side is priceless.

We just started the page in the summer of 2009 therefore it is not really big, but we are developing. We have regular hacking challenges and other competitions.
Like:

• Crack passwords
• Sniff network traffic
• Setup encrypted VPN tunnels
• Social engineering
• Dumpster diving
• Application and O/S exploits
• Spy & Counter Surveillance

How is that legal?

We do this within our own internal network. Hacking is not a crime, which is a common misconception. It’s no different than driving a car. At Group51.org, we don’t cross the line. We don’t link to illegal content or support it in any way. Members caught doing this are banned from the group for life. In a real but silly way, once you cross over to the dark side, you can’t be trusted. There are many companies today that have this as a job function so that their networks and information are more secure. Are we sneaky wtih disclaimers and still provide access to illegal content? No. If you’re new to all this, you will quickly learn about the open source world. There’s simply no need.

Is Hacking the only thing we do?

No. We have different levels of users that work together on various things. Sometimes to understand certain tools of the trade or other interesting things. The sky is the limit.

More here http://group51.org or follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/group51

13.11. ab 19 Uhr: openSUSE Launch-Party: Was bringen 121 neue Features?
Version 11.2 ab 12. November zum Download

openSUSE, die von seinen Fans stolz als Nürnberger Windows bezeichnete
Linux Distribution, meldet sich mit einem Feuerwerk an neuen Features
zurück.

Die von Novell unterstützte openSUSE Community hat mit dem SUSE-Studio
ein einzigartiges System entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe die Anwender ihr
individuelles Install-System bereits vor dem Download konfigurieren können.

Edit:

So viel Neues gab es in openSUSE schon lange nicht mehr: Mit 11.2 lassen
die Entwickler einen Schwung von Innovationen auf die Anwender los.

Mit den Features,

• einem einheitlichen Tool (YAST 2) zur System-Konfiguration,
• den gewohnt guten Übersetzungen ins Deutsche,
• einem vor dem Download konfigurierbaren System (susestudio.com),
• einer Benutzerführung, die je nach Aufgabe, zur richtigen Software
  führt,
• einem beschleunigten Boot Prozess mit der neuen Upstart Technologie,
• einem schnelleren Dateisystem (ext4), das eine Million Terrabyte
  unterstützt

und vielen weiteren Neuigkeiten meldet sich eine der am längsten
bestehenden Linux Distributionen mit deutschen Wurzeln wieder zurück.

Auf http://susestudio.com/ kann sich jeder Anwender seine individuelle
openSUSE DVD mit den gewünschten Programmen individuell konfigurieren
und dann downloaden.

Daniel Jahre vom Linuxwochen Team hat den openSUSE Anwender Alexander
Rössler eingeladen um einen Blick hinter die Kulissen von openSUSE zu wagen.

Datum/Zeit: Fr 13. November 2009, 20.00 (Einlass ab 19.00)
Ort: Raum D / quartier21, QDK / Electric Avenue, MQ Wien
http://quartier21.mqw.at/uebersichtsplan/ -> Nr. 55
Referent: Alexander Rössler, openSUSE

Tipp: Wer seinen Laptop mitbringt, der kann im Rahmen unseres Linux Labs
eine Erstinstallation unter fachkundiger Aufsicht wagen.

EDIT: Bitte last mich wissen ob ihr kommen könnt, damit ich ungefähr weis, wie viele kommen.

After a bigger break I release SUSEnews 0.1.4 beta

New:

• openSUSE Weekly News “Light Version”
• saigkill joined the developer team

ToDo:

• Proxy Settings
• Statistics
• Upload

Get it:

• The program is availible on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/susenews/
• SVN: svn co https://susenews.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/susenews
• One Click Install from here (might not been actualized yet).

You can subscribe the mailinglist where I will try to hold you on the line. https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/susenews-develop

If you have questions or ideas how to configure this program better, please tell us.

Qt 4.6 beta and Qt Creator 1.3 beta released, available on the qt homepage or in a repository.
Qt KDE repository overview

Changes for Qt 4.6 beta: here
Changes for Qt Creator 1.3 beta: here

One of the biggest features is the growing Symbian support

I had recently problems installing nemesis on openSUSE, because nemesis needs an earlier libnet version, which I didn’t find in the OBS (maybe I’ll upload it on my repo, but I have to find out first how the OBS work ).

I dowloaded the nemesis source from here
If you have libnet 1.1 installed, it will always say, it can’t find the libnet directory.

So I downloaded an libnet 1.02a rpm from here and installed it.

After that you can compile nemesis without any problems.

But while updating you might also update libnet to the higher version and after that it might not work anymore.

I found the article about the US Cybercrime myth very amusing.

http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0910/16795.html

Have Phun!

I am currently switching often between the US and the German keyboard layout.
I found also a great solution for it, so I can easily change the layouts during writing.

Do it like that:

• –>Configure Desktop
• –>Regional & Lanugage
• –>Keyboard Layout
• –>Layout
• –>Enable keyboard layouts
• –>Add the wanted keyboard layouts into the “Active layouts” section
• –>Apply
• –>Configure Desktop
• –>Keyboard & Mouse
• –>Global Keyboard Shortcuts
• –>set the KDE component to “KDE Keyboard Layout Switcher”
• –>Switch to Next Keyboard Layout
• –>set “Custom” and klick on the button right next to it and press the wanted shortcut combination
• –>Apply

And now you can change the keyboard layout easily during writing.

Have Phun.

Qt searches for beta tester of Qt 4.6.

Just download it from here or from the Qt 4.6 Repository.

After that Qt is happy about your response http://survey.confirmit.com/wix1/p995540662.aspx

Well, it was a long time ago, I played my last real game (and a real game is for me not a virtual card game or so).

The self extracting file is about 82MB big, you just have to start it, it copies the files into a wanted folder and you can start via starting the “hiverise” script.

I wanted to start the game once on my EEE PC 1000H, but it has not the needed hardware resources.

To the game:

You can register yourself (if you want to play in the internet also and if you want to save your credits) and then you can start.
The normal game on your computer takes about ten minutes, because it is limited, but that has nothing to say, those 10 minutes are loaded with action.
You start in a closed base with 3 gates. You have 20 seconds or so to build the most needed things like mines and the first soldiers. Then the gates are open and the real game starts.
As armed forces are soldiers (with a gun, grenades or rocket launcher), tanks (a buggy like tank, a light tank, a heavy tank, a canon and an anti aircraft tank) and helicopters (machine gun, rocket launcher, bomber and an anti helicopter).
Specialized guns which can be placed on at the gates are also available (anti infantry, anti tank and anti aircraft).

Here some screenshots:

Main Window:

Begin of a game:

Trophies:

You can get the game from the Hive Rise home http://www.hiverise.com

Have Phun!!

Qt 4.6 Technology Review released.
For more informations http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/qt-4.6-technology-preview-released.

Please watch the video, it is really funny