OpenSSH is a wonderful tool box. The main purpose is to establish encrypted connections (SSH means Secure SHell) on a remote UNIX machine and, once authenticated, to spawn a shell to perform remote administration. Running on port 22 (default), the client (ssh) and the server (sshd) exchange encrypted information (what
Security by Obscurity?
“The “Brief Safe” is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you’re traveling…” Is it what we call security by “obscurity” ? 😉 Source: random-good-stuff.com.
Bash: History to Syslog
For those who still ignore, Bash 4 is out for a few days! Bash is the most used shell on UNIX hosts. Bash has a built-in mechanism to save a log of all commands executed by the user (default in $HOME/.bash_history) but this file belongs to the user itself and
Strange Firefox Behavior? (back, homepage, bookmarks disabled)
I faced a strange behavior with a Firefox running on an Ubuntu notebook today: No access to the homepage, bookmarks not manageable anymore, no back nor forward buttons (all greyed). Last release of Firefox on top of an up-to-date Ubuntu. After a few hours of investigations, the machine could be
Sorry, We Are Closed!
WTF! I just tried to buy some movie tickets @ Kinepolis. I received the message below. Since when e-commerce websites are closed like regular stores?
Safe Access to a UNIX Filesystem from Windows
Sometimes, it can be useful to access data stored on a UNIX server from a Windows environment. Of course, access must be secured. Running on top of a SSH session, WinSCP is a great tool to transfer files. But drag-and-drop files from/to the WinSCP windows is sometimes irritating. An alternative
What’s a Valid Evidence?
The following case happened in France: A Court of Cassation rejected a simple data file as an evidence. The evidence proposed by one of both parties was a data file with information about an e-mail transmission (a log?) send from company A to company B. According to the Court, the
Quick and Dirty Integrity Check Script
Here is a quick and dirty bash script which will take care of your files integrity. Integrity is a component of the CIA triad, I’ll not come back on this. For a personal project, I should be able to monitor any change in a specific file. I quickly wrote the
DShield Web Honeypot – Alpha Preview Release
isc.sans.org announced today the Alpha availability of the DShield Web Honeypot: “The goal of the Web honeypot project is inline with the original DShield project, the data collected through the sensors feed the Dshield web database where human volunteers as well as machines pour through the data looking for abnormal
Do We Need a New Internet?
An article has been published this weekend in the NY Times about a hot topic: “Do we need a new Internet?“. To resume, the journalist, John Markoff, explained that the current Internet is not able to survive to attacks from malicious codes (viruses, malwares and other nice things). Unfortunately, deploying