I spent some time today and fixed some seriously messed up regular expressions in Reconnoiter.  Basically, Google made a bunch of changes to their search results and added AJAX all over the place.  To deal with this, I changed the submitted user agent to Lynx and then updated the regex accordingly.  Changes with regex were made to usernameGen.py and username_gen.rb (a metasploit module).

I also fixed an issue in username_gen.rb with the regex returning a null value to the list of names.  The change was a quick check for null values and deletes any that it finds.  No fuss and no crashes so far.  It probably needs more testing to be sure, but all told it wasn’t a bad evening’s work.

Download is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/reconnoiter/.