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Securing backups to Dropbox with LUKS

Dropbox meets LUKS When it comes to my data, I like it private even though I've nothing to hide (ignore the paradox). I've been using Dropbox and Swift (OpenStack Object Storage project) to backup my data. I tried writing a BASH script to recursively ...

My GnuPG Transition

The old key, which I am transitional away from, is: pub 4096R/D5E28EE0 (0x192BA1E6D5E28EE0) 2014-02-22 John Ombagi (Linux, DB & Infosec) John Ombagi (Linux, DB & Infosec) Fingerprint=ACF5 FAFE 3C3D 4CE5 95D9 ...

Testing for ShellShock in Linux (CentOS/OEL)

Below is a simple bash script I've been using to test for shellshock vulns in my Linux setups. Though, it's not a script to really decide weather you are totally safe of not, due to the nature of shellshock and other different attack vectors that ...

Exploring anti-DOS tools for Apache httpd

Slowloris is among the well known "Denial Of Service" (or DOS) tool used by both experienced attackers and script kiddies. This evening, I've been testing mod_evasion and mod_antiloris on Apache httpd /2.2.15 (Oracle Linux 6.5 using Redhat built ...