Security

Excellent little Python script that can 'phone home' and get a list of known bad IPs out on the internet.

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

If you own a Sony DRM'd CD, you'll be interested in this.




Crazy weekend. Both kids are sick with the stomach flu and we are showing signs of it too. Juliana ended up at the hospital tonite and has an appointment tomorrow morning. Not fun.

I'm running on fumes at the moment. I think the Sony gods are angry because the first time I attempted to post this, the power went out right after a lightning strike. I'm going to submit this before I lose power again.

Despite having a bad rep due to what it does, this program actually had some good uses.

http://www.securitydump.com/content160.html

I've migrated this site to a more powerful box. It is quite amazing that a dual PPro could host about 10 to 15 websites at the rate that it did for so long. It is still up and running but will be sent to the server graveyard soon. Quite an amazing little machine. I'm also toying with different plug ins for this software, so expect to see things change around quite a bit this week as I catch up.

A good resource for rule sets for mod_security can be found here by the way:
http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-index.php?page=mod_security+rules

It is disturbing how many automated bots scan websites on a daily basis.