New version of mutillidae released

A new version of mutillidae has been released, the current version is 2.6.34, dont forget to download the md5 checksum for the zip file and then verify the integrity of the download

echo 1ebe063a0b258093b5df45e81fe8954e LATEST-mutillidae-2.6.34.zip | md5sum -c

available from sourceforge

update I've sent jeremy druin aka webpwnized a message stating that after install etc the version shows as 2.6.32 not sure if the error is in the upload or directly in web app it self

awaiting response

update: according to webpwnized this will be fixed in a coming update, for know I can edit the the /includes/constants.php file myself and correct it

Verify checksum of files on linux

when downloading files especially from the Internet, its crucial that you verify your download, this will help you release if the actual you file you have just downloaded has been tampered with in any way by another party.

In this example we have just downloaded WebGoat from the interweb the filename and checksum is displayed in the pic below

filename: WebGoat-5.4-OWASP_Standard_Win32.zip
SHA1 Checksum: eb61e9eadb00ae62796110bedf16366a8a15c02f

to verify this in linux (kali) this is simple, simply enter teh command as shown below 

echo eb61e9eadb00ae62796110bedf16366a8a15c02f WebGoat-5.4-OWASP_Standard_Win32.zip | sha1sum -c - 

sha1sum checksum    

to verify that the  sha1sum matches the filename, the output returned is 

 however if there was a mismatch you will see;