It’s interesting in that shell scripts (small one’s) seem just like friendly bits of code that you can run. That’s not always the case, it’s probably never a good idea to just download a script and run it (esp using curl or wget). I discovered this very interesting article the other day about terminal escape injection and it works on pretty much every platform – mac, windows linux and even within python!
When in dought use cat -v in fact cat -v may be my new default for viewing code!
Hi I’m very proud to announce that my application (which I still haven’t found a name for!) is ready for beta release. It’s a very light command line app that uses log data for security hardening, so if you use Ubuntu, debian or linux (and or nginx or apache2) and are comfortable with the command line then please do get in touch. At this stage it’s a fairly simple app and in effect a security tool for those of us who can not afford thousands of dollars towards their own IDS.
This application will probably be most useful for smb running their own sites (small aws installs for example) for people who want extra security, and to stop a lot of the “noise” that hits the average web server.
If you want more information, have a look at the intro vid I made that is put up on youtube..
All I ask is that you supply the version of ubuntu / linux that you’re using and that after looking at the app take the time to fill in a short survey.
Look forward to hearing from you Regards Steve Abrahall PS if your interested email me at
steveabrahall AT gmail DOT comm
To find out what version of the os your using lsb_release -a
Did some testing this morning on the new certs and realised that things were not working in firefox and at one point I think I saw an erro in chrome! Problem was fire fox needed both www and non www versions of the site name. Re issuing the cert sorted this in no time!
This is how the process worked out…!
sudo certbot --nginx Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx No names were found in your configuration files. Please enter in your domain name(s) (comma and/or space separated) (Enter 'c' to cancel): www.gingercatsoftware.com gingercatsoftware.com
