Elasticsearch notes

Useful links Elasticdump – http://blog.ruanbekker.com/blog/2017/11/22/using-elasticdump-to-backup-elasticsearch-indexes-to-json/ sudo npm install n -g sudo n stable   https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-interact-with-data-in-elasticsearch-using-crud-operations Delete by time https://hobo.house/2016/02/18/how-to-manually-clean-indexes-from-elasticsearch/  

Installing cuckoo sandbox on Mac OS

Cuckoo sandbox is an automated malware analysis system. Its does utilize virtualization engine to isolate malware execution and analysis. You will be given a web-interface, as well as CLI tools to communicate with cuckoo, such to upload, and reviewing all reports. I’ve found a complete tutorial on this. http://advancedmalwareprotection.blogspot.com/2012/03/installing-cuckoo-on-max-os-x-lion.html Hope this would help anyone to […]

wp-login.php brute force

Lately my server is receiving many request for wordpress brute-force attempts. Some of them do slow us down. The server resources were just wasted for the request. So, some searches got me to this site, which provide a good mod_security config to block this attack for a short period. http://www.frameloss.org/2011/07/29/stopping-brute-force-logins-against-wordpress/ This is just a snippet, […]

flow duplicator

Nowadays I able to play around with flow data. Flow provide detail information on network traffic, for various purpose such as network monitoring, bandwidth monitor, traffic accounting archive and for security purpose. We have configured a layer 2/3 switch to send sflow data to my monitoring server. Some visualization were done by nfsen, but, its […]

Caching, practical caching.

As I go along managing a few sites, managing a few servers before, most of my time online were spent studying on socializing, information security, server administration (security, optimization), and others. ‘Others’ might contribute to a bigger portion, but just to emphasize that one part of server administration is optimization, to make a software work […]