PuTTY Connection Manager
As probably the majority of this blog readers, PuTTY is part of your software toolbox. For those who never heard the name “PuTTY”, it’s a free [ssh|telnet|raw|serial] client for Wintel systems. Please check the website for a complete overview. PuTTY has many options and can do almost everything at ssh/telnet
“Surfons Tranquille” Information Campaign
The Belgian Authorities will soon start an information campaign about “safe surf on the Internet” [1]. Prevention messages will be broadcasted on well known websites and radios. It is a nice initiative. Helas, security professionals know that the weakest element will always remain the end user. User education is important
Follow Multiple Files with OpenBSD “tail”
On UNIX, the tail[1] command displays the last ten lines of a file by default. But there are many other options: Especially the “follow” flag (-f) which displays all new lines appended to the watched file. This a very basic but efficient monitoring tool. The GNU version of tail introduced
High Technology Snack?
Today I went with colleagues to a snack in Louvain-La-Neuve to pick up some food. This is a “standard” snack where students are employed like many others on university campus. But today, I saw a brand new box next to the door: It is a fingerprint scanner from Oytech, a
Weathermap Integration Into Groundwork Open Source
Groundwork is a well-known monitoring tool. In my job, I deploy Groundwork servers from small to quite very-complex infrastructures: it’s an amazing application. I’ll not describe it here, just go to the official web site for a detailed review. Groundwork is available in three versions: full open source and two
Belgian Police Website Defaced (again)
For the 4th time, a Belgian police website has been defaced last weekend (news in French). That leads me to several questions… In Belgium, there are several (196!) Police zones and Federal police services. I can totally understand that those services does not have the same needs in terms of
Do You Trust Your Applications?
Internet is a infinite source of free software! If you are looking for a small tool to automate tasks, convert files or make your life easier, there are chances that somebody around the world already wrote some code and distributed it for free on the Net. But, on a security
The Kilobyte Mystery
(Source: xkcd.com)
carprss.php Exploit
Since 29 February, this blog was hit by 400+ attempts to compromize the server and install an IRC bot. There is a new exploit of SiteBuilder in the wild. Hits came from the following compromized hosts: # awk ‘{ print $1 }’ <carprss.tmp | sort -nu 64.128.80.82 64.185.237.176 64.22.112.178 64.255.254.10