by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My home server seems to occasionally enter a steady state. The syslog logs, the IDS detects, the vulnerability scanner scans, the web server serves. I stop routinely…
D-Link Router Compromise Attempt
by Fred Theilig – @[email protected] Security Onion threw up three alerts this week:WGET Command Specifying Output in HTTP HeadersPossible D-Link Router HNAP Protocol Security Bypass AttemptD-Link Devices Home Network Administration Protocol Command…
Diving Back Into Apache Logs
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My home server has been pretty quiet as of late. Sometimes because it’s literally quiet. I will shut it down from time to time because the fans…
The Choices We Make
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig We are not who we used to be. Well, mostly we are, but in a real sense we aren’t. Every minute cells die and are replaced. Neurons…
Security on the Flip Side
by Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig Occasionally mentioned in a podcast, I was only tangentially aware of the Security BSides conferences. More notice was taken while attending DEF CON this past summer, which…
Udemy for free
It was brought to my attention that Rhode Island has partnered with Udemy through gale. If you own a library card, read this! Udemy is one of my ‘go-tos’ for getting up…
Threat Hunting for the Uninitiated
By Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig I took a look at my UniFi wifi and discovered the following: Ah! A rogue device! Did a son bring a new device into the house? Did…
A (slightly) Deeper Dive into Weird Apache Logs
By Fred Theilig – @fmtheilig My IDS alerted me to strange behavior (obfuscated Log4j) on my web server, but rather than investigate through Security Onion, I went straight to the logs. Greping…
Banner Capture for Fun and Profit
On January 30th I saw the single suricata alert “ET SCAN Zmap User-Agent (Inbound)”. This is a low severity alert and the target was my web server. Let’s see what that’s all…
WordPress Back ups
We get caught up trying to get something to work, that we forget to back it up. I’ve done it, and still do it…until something happens and I’m kicking myself in the…