Pulled Pork is a PERL based tool for Suricata and Snort rule management – it can determine your version of Snort and automatically download the latest rules for you. The name was chosen because simply speaking, it Pulls the rules. Using a regular crontab you can keep your Snort or Suricata rules up to date […]
Countermeasures
Signal Messaging App Formal Audit Results Are Good
I’ve recommended Signal Messaging App quite a few times and I do use it myself, I know there are some privacy concerns with the fact it requires Google App Store – but that’s the developers choice. It’s a pretty solid app, clean, sleek and works well across both Android and iOS and the latest news […]
Snort – Free Network Intrusion Detection & Prevention System
Snort is an open-source, lightweight, free network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats. It’s capable of of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching, and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as […]
SHA-256 and SHA3-256 Are Safe For the Foreseeable Future
Hashing, it’s always a contentious issue – used to be md5, then sha-1, then bcrypt and now it looks like SHA-256 or SHA3-256 might the future with quantum science boffins predicting it’s not feasable to crack. You can read more about the algorithm and design (using sponge construction) on Wikipedia here: SHA-3 While it’s reasonable […]
Securing MySQL Installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Today let’s talk about securing MySQL installation on Ubuntu, in this case specifically Ubuntu 16.04 LTS which was released not too long ago. So I love Ubuntu and I use it for everything, especially the LTS (Long Term Support) releases for servers. MySQL is not my best buddy, but a necessary evil many times – […]