4 years ago I was writing about getting an eKey to generate more entropy. Well, I never bought the eKey, and it took me 4 years to look at entropy generation again, but I found some interesting results today. I was trying to set up /dev/hw_random on an Intel Xeon E3-1270. While /proc/cpuinfo […]
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Wednesday, June 12 2013
DKIM:1, Phisher:0
Wednesday, June 12 2013. General
I received this morning a very good phishing attempts in my mailbox. The email is almost perfectly crafted to match the usual Bank of America communications, except for two details: There is no DKIM signature. It shows right away because of the little icon on the "From" line, displayed by […]
Sunday, June 9 2013
Introducing AutOssec: automated Ossec deployment for Chef
Sunday, June 9 2013. General
Ossec is a great tool to monitor the security of a set of systems. Servers, VMs, PCs... Ossec can keep an eye on your systems and send alerts when "something" happens. "something" being defined by Ossec rules that can be a little tricky to write and keep under control. While […]
Sunday, May 26 2013
AFW at Netfilter Workshop 2013
Sunday, May 26 2013. General
It's been a busy 2013 so far! So busy that I'm only now processing the videos I recorded over 2 months ago... But here it is, the recording of my presentation of AFW from the Netfilter Workshop 2013 at Open Source Days in Copenhagen. I was there for a few days, and had a great time with the […]
Friday, December 21 2012
AFW 0.0.5 is out !
Friday, December 21 2012. General
For the last few weeks, I have been busy building edge-routers in Chef (more on that later). And while I was at it, I fixed a bunch of stuff in the Advanced FireWall cookbook. There is enough bugfixes and new features to release a new version of the cookbook, so, 8 weeks after 0.0.4, allow me to […]
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