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Open-Data wants to be free, but no one looks.

By |2022-06-15T00:22:50-04:00September 29th, 2019|Categories: e-Discovery, Hunting, Scripts|Tags: , , , , , , |

Problem: A few months ago, Giancarlo Gonzales, a former CIO for the island of Puerto Rico, indicated the lack of updates towards open-data in data.pr.gov. As part of an open-data initiative, Puerto Rico created its own version of data.gov, called data.pr.gov, which provides free and open access to government information datasets. Giancarlo alluded to the lack of updated [...]

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Apache brute: A simple brute force deterrent for Linux

By |2022-06-15T00:39:43-04:00May 31st, 2017|Categories: Defensive Methodology|Tags: , , , |

We published a simple script to help identify and block possible brute-force attempts on a Linux web-server. The script counts the amount of “bad-actions” an ip has logged in the Apache logs and blocks the ip on port 443. This script also displays top 20 visitor information using geoiplookup (which should be installed) and performs a [...]

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