This is a quick howto on faking service banners. Service banners often contain a lot of usefull information for malicious script-kiddies, like the (real) running software on the remote host and it’s version number. Knowing this, they can better target their exploits. This howto deals with changing this information. Keep in mind that this won’t […]
Credits and update log
This article was inspired by Artur Maj’s article Securing Apache: Step-by-Step. It shows in a step-by-step fashion how to install and configure the Apache 2.0.x series web server in much the same way as the 1.3.X covered in Artur’s article, i.e. “in order to mitigate or avoid successful break-in when new vulnerabilities […]
Table 1. Sample regular expressions Example Description
[abc] Matches one of “a”, “b”, or “c”
[a-z] Matches any one lowercase letter from “a” to “z”
[A-Z] Matches any one uppercase letter from “A” to “Z”
[0-9] Matches any one number from 0 to 9
[^0-9] Matches any character other than the numbers from 0 to 9
[-0-9] Matches any number from 0 to 9, or a […]
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Securing services running on your system
Services can be secured in a running system in two ways:
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Making them only accessible at the access points (interfaces) they need to be in.
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Configuring them properly so that they can […]
Hi,
here are three scripts for daily, weekly and monthly statistics. After the monthly statistics the access.log will be rotated.
This is based on Jeremy Lahners first script on your web page, many thanks to him.
Daily (Jeremy´s script):
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#!/bin/bash
#Get current date
TODAY=$(date +%d/%m/%Y)
#Get one week ago today
YESTERDAY=$(date –date “1 day ago” +%d/%m/%Y)
/usr/local/bin/sqmgrlog -l /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log -o /usr/local/apache/htdocs/reports/daily -z -d $YESTERDAY-$TODAY
exit […]
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