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Am I Secure?

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October 20, 2011
by Kura

This program is still in Alpha phase and is nowhere near complete. It's purpose is quite simply to be run on a server and let you know if there are any possible security holes in your configuration. It is designed and configured around Debian so will not work properly on Red Hat-based distributions without modifications to the tests.

What can it scan?
  • OpenSSH
  • nginx
  • Apache2
  • PHP5
  • DenyHosts
How does it work? Am I secure will open up your configuration files in the order that each program would include them in, for example Apache2 includes them in the following order on Debian-based More >

AFK, an SMS sender and way too much PHP…

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June 13, 2010
by Kura in

Sadly of late I've been stuck writing nothing but PHP during my work hours. Short of a few major internal disasters I've done nothing I would count as interesting enough to really post about, until recently.

A week or two ago I made some modifications to our internal Nagios monitoring system - http://nagios.com/ - which saw me writing a Python-powered sms script which takes Nagios messages and passes them to our SMS provider API and delivers them to my phone.

The code isn't exactly pretty and it's rather simple but it does the job and uses LXML to actually generate the message that gets More >

nginx, proxy_cache and reverse proxying explained & benchmarked

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February 7, 2010
by Kura in , , , , ,
The beginning

Where to begin? nginx would be a good start I suppose. It's far easier and makes much for sense for you to actually read about nginx from it's own website - http://nginx.org/en/ - but just to give a simple explanation too; `nginx is king of static content HTTP servers.`

Anyone that has dealt with Apache on medium to high traffic websites will know that Apache is bit of a `wheezy, old geezer` when it comes to content serving using it's mpm-worker (threaded). Very often high traffic will cause server load to go through the roof but for serving dynamic content, there really is no More >

HOWTO: Debian server security

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January 14, 2010
by Kura in , , , , , ,

Server security is something I've always tried to keep myself up-to-date on. I have at least a dozen RSS feeds that I read daily to learn about the latest flaws, holes releases etc. That being said I am by no means an "expert", I've learned what I've needed to learn over time. I like to think that over the years I've gained enough knowledge to almost completely secure servers with all the programs installed that I generally use.

The aim of this article is to introduce you to some of the programs I use for security and some config changes that can be made to other programs to make them more More >

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