Recently while working on some node or instance automation using RightScale I needed to have some extra iptables rules created automatically when a new node booted. Initially I was just trying to do this via iptables commands which I note below but it would never work. After digging through the logs I realized that the…
As you know we think that oclHashcat is one of the best password crackers available and along with Hashcat and John The Ripper are pretty much the only password crackers we use at this point. Earlier someone asked me to crack some OpenLDAP hashes which come in SHA and SSHA format and the below example…
LiteSpeed web server uses the same Rewrite engine that Apache uses so most of the information you will find on the Internet relates to Apache and not LiteSpeed. One of the projects I am working on redirects all web traffic that hits each virtual host from HTTP to HTTPS without exception. Recently it came up…
This may seem simple to some people but to others it is not so easy. If you installed Snort yourself you will already know where the rules file is however, these days many Linux distros come with snort pre installed with mysql configured so there is nothing to do but start Snorts IDS.