OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and OpenBSD. There … Continue reading
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Since the release of OpenSSH 6.2, two new configuration parameters have been added: AuthorizedKeysCommand AuthorizedKeysCommandUser These parameters allow to create any kind of authentication method for OpenSSH, including LDAP authentication, and therefore patches like the LPK patch for OpenSSH are … Continue reading
A secure and very random password generator module written in Perl. It can be used to generate passwords or unique strings which can be used in sorts of operations. The default character set is alpha-numerical based, but can be set … Continue reading
Recently I have been asked to write a Syslog event generator, but not just a normal syslog generator, it had to be able to generate events coming from different hosts. The normal ‘logger’ command sends Syslog messages using the machine’s … Continue reading