TweetI have been working on an issue where HttpServletRequest.getHostName() always return the IP address, instead of the host name. The Tomcat 5.5 and Tomcat 6 documentation states enableLookups is set to true by default. Link to this post!
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Apache mod_security on CentOS 5 x86_64
TweetIn the journey of rebuilding my dedicated server to create a secured cloud server, I was trying to find out what are the potential issues, besides network intrusion through various ports, and services on my server. I found numbers ranging from 70% to 85% of all intrusions actually occur by way of applications. Specifically, I [...]
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Tweetwhile I was trying to get the Apache mod_security plugin working, I starting having issue with Including 2 different libraries. The examples required me to include libxml2 and lua 5 <em>LoadFile /usr/lib/libxml2.so LoadFile /usr/lib/liblua.so.5.0</em> Now when I ran a configcheck on Apache after this declaration alone, I kept getting the following error: <em>/usr/lib/libxml2.so: wrong ELF [...]
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TweetIn a post I made a few months ago: http://baselogic.com/blog/archives/252 I talked about an issue with a RootKit that I had. Well, the truth is, that was just a symptom to an issue. The reality was, I was hacked pretty bad, and really forced to completely start fresh with a complete OS reload, and getting [...]
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TweetYesterday, I was invaded by a RootKit. It seems there where some stealth application added to my /tmp directory, and seems to be stealing bandwidth from my server. I was given this URL as to a fix to secure my /tmp directory, and I am still trying to get through this tutorial: http://sysadmingear.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-secure-tmp-and-devshm-partition.html I wanted [...]
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