security – ~FaerieCX~

Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

15/04/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Packages of note in the Internet worlds: pfSense (2.3 release) Runs off Bootstrap front end now, FreeBSD to 10.3 base. Looks very 'slick'. I did break the upgrade, cos the 'RX-offload' bug with Xen still exists in this release. Has to be turned off from the host. Code snippet given…

VPS’s and Privacy

16/02/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Privacy I am so getting tired of emails being blocked by Spamhaus-PBL. This is NOT an abuse list, yet email admins are using it as a 'blocklist'. I got no probs with SBL's and stuff.. but PBL?! I'm looking at you messagelabs.com (and any others that use it). I have…

Self coded honeypot is live for now

04/01/2016 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Picked up an interesting new scanner with a (possible troll) UA: "apache 0day by @hxmonsegur" coming from 185.130.5.224. Update: So far I've tested the 'exploit' against my Apache installation - doesn't appear to be doing anything. Update: Confirmed, it's fake.