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Decloaking IRC Channel Bots with Nginx & PHP
I was tweaking around with some Nginx host proxy configurations and discovered a juvenile, but neat trick in decloaking chat bots that prefetch URL’s in chat channels. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an...
View ArticleInstall Snorby for pfSense Snort Integration
This is a guide to installing Snorby running on an Ubuntu Server machine, for integration with a Snort instance on pfSense. This howto should also work on Debian and other Debian-based distributions,...
View ArticleRegistering Amazon EC2 Instances on Multiple ELB’s
I’ve come across the issue several times recently, where the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console does not allow you to register instances on more than one Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The key...
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pfSense IPSec VPN Gateway + Amazon VPC + BGP Routing
This is a howto guide for establishing an IPSec VPN tunnel to an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using the pfSense 2.0 (RC1) open source router / firewall distribution. We will use Border Gateway...
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DIY: OSX Anti Theft Software for the Macbook Pro
This is a tutorial for setting up your own open-source anti-theft software in OSX. Upon completion of this tutorial, you will have a system daemon that will securely perform, nearly all of the core...
View ArticleOutbound NAT (Specific IP Address) in Cisco IOS
Here is a quick tip on routing all traffic from a single inside local address to single inside global address in Cisco IOS using PAT. This has been tested on a Cisco 1941 ISR G2 router running on the...
View ArticleHTTP 4xx & 5xx from Nginx / Apache Web Server Logs (Daily Email Report)
It’s a good practice to monitor your web server logs for erroneous HTTP status codes in the requests made to your web server. There are several reasons for doing this routinely, including...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services (AWS) Announces Latency Based Routing for Route 53
Very exciting news late tonight! Amazon Web Services (AWS) finally offers their new Latency Based Routing (LBR) for Route 53. This feature will give AWS users of the Route 53 DNS service a...
View ArticleGenerate Static HTML WordPress (Script) + Puppet Deployment
This is a how to guide for generating a dynamic WordPress website into a static HTML version. It is aimed at WordPress administrators that wish to serve up their WordPress deployments in static format,...
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Realtime pfSense Firewall Attack Logs in Splunk + Google Maps with GeoIP
I’ve been doing some pretty interesting things with Splunk lately, and finally got around to toying with the Google Maps Splunk app. I was able to find a couple of boiler plate Splunk configuration...
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