Tonight’s CPLUG meeting topics were Monit and NetReg.
I did the Monit talk and, as far as I could tell, it went pretty well. People seemed to be fairly interested and there were some really good questions/discussion afterward. If you are interested, my presentation slides for my talk are online.
Jason Long covered NetReg [...]
Nate pointed out a link to Ranum’s Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security from 2005. Might be worth checking out.
I saw Marcus Ranum present at the CPLUG Security Conference back in March 2005, and he was definitely one of the most entertaining speakers of the day… if not necessarily the most informative. Either way, he [...]
IBM DeveloperWorks explains how to build a web spider on Linux:
Web spiders are software agents that traverse the Internet gathering, filtering, and potentially aggregating information for a user. Using common scripting languages and their collection of Web modules, you can easily develop Web spiders. This article shows you how to build spiders and scrapers for [...]
Quoth Ian at LAMP Training:
We deliver on-site courses throughout the US and worldwide on a range of web technologies, drawing from our personal experience of developing and deploying web-applications, creating web-frameworks, and contributing to open-source software.
Course categories include Web 2.0, Python, Django, and Linux/MySQL/PostgreSQL.
Secure Shell (SSH) is everywhere.
Since it’s inception in 1995, SSH has become the most widespread remote login protocol for Linux boxes, with some estimates saying that there were at least 2 million SSH users at the end of 2000. Gone are the days of telnet sending your data in plaintext over untrusted networks. Now [...]
