What's New
This article will serve to explain the major changes to Möbius with the 2.5 release. For a detailed list of changes, please review the Release Notes.
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Mobius Wiki
The Möbius tool now uses an online wiki to provide the official documentation. This website allows us and members of the Möbius community to easily update documentation based on feedback from users. We hope this site will also serve as another means to connect users in our community to share the work they have done or are doing with Möbius.
To add or edit pages on the Möbius wiki, you must first log in using the link in the upper right. You should use the same authentication details you use on the main Möbius website.
ADVISE Atomic Formalism
Probably the largest addition to Möbius in this release is the new atomic modeling formalism, ADversary VIew Security Evaluation (ADVISE). The ADVISE formalism seeks to model the behavior of an adversary attacking a system and the effect of the adversaries action. ADVISE has been in development for over four years and has had several papers published describing its theory and implementation. For a detailed understanding of ADVISE, please read LeMay's dissertation.
In addition to those works, we describe on the wiki the details of ADVISE in Möbius. There is also a nice step-by-step tutorial on ADVISE in our tutorials section.
Möbius Shell
The Möbius Shell is a new command-line interface to the Möbius tool. In addition to allowing people to run Möbius in a non-graphical environment, the Möbius Shell enables the scripting of various Möbius operations such as defining models and running solvers.
To start the Möbius Shell, execute the mobius-shell.sh script in the install root of Möbius. For example, on Mac OSX:
/Applications/Mobius.app/mobius-shell.sh -c
Running mobius-shell.sh with the -c argument, the shell will launch in an interactive mode. This mode can be used with a unix pipe to execute a series of commands in a text file. Alternatively, if you run mobius-shell.sh with the -s argument and a path to a text file, the file will be read and executed as a Möbius script.
Command syntax can be seen using the built-in help system by simply executing the help command. Or, you can see the syntax on the Möbius Shell page.
