Current Release: http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/bfd-current.tar.gz http://www.rfxn.com/appdocs/README.bfd http://www.rfxn.com/appdocs/CHANGELOG.bfd An updated version of BFD 1.5 has been released, version 1.5-1, which addresses an address scoping issue in the event forged syslog data is encountered on the host system running BFD from a malicious local user or any other sources that may generate forged syslog data. In such situations, BFD … Continue reading "BFD 1.5-1 Update: Forged Syslog Da...| R-fx Networks
The release of LMD 1.4.1 is now live and with it comes a few new features. In this small update, I have tried to deliver on on a couple of common feature requests from users which were in-line with my development goals. That said, right to it… The biggest change has come in the form … Continue reading "LMD 1.4.1: Delivering on your requests"| R-fx Networks
As cliche as it sounds, where has the time gone? Today we celebrate two years of Linux Malware Detect, open-source (web) malware detection. The project has seen allot of change since the first release. What was initially started as an internal project to deal with a large increase in malware activity at my job, a … Continue reading "Linux Malware Detect: 2 Years Strong"| R-fx Networks
The much awaited for 1.4 release of Linux Malware Detect is here! In this release there is quite literally something for everyone, from massive performance gains to FreeBSD support and everything in between :). For those who wish to dive straight into it, you can run the -d or –update-ver option to update your install … Continue reading "LMD 1.4: Little Something For Everyone!"| R-fx Networks
New technologies, new toys — Oh how I love getting my hands dirty with them. Today I am going to have a look at ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) as an alternative solution to NFS in the role of a NAS/SAN implementation. We will look at both the server side vblade setup and the client side … Continue reading "ATA Over Ethernet: As an Alternative"| R-fx Networks
I have put up a revision to the 1.3.9 release of LMD that fixes a hexdepth bug in which malware greater than 65Kbytes would cause an error in the internal hexstring.pl script and be considered clean on the stage2 hex scanning of malware. This would mean that unless malware had a MD5 signature for it … Continue reading "LMD 1.3.9r1: Hexdepth Bug"| R-fx Networks
As an administrator within a mid-sized organization, you can find yourself wearing many occupational hats, which becomes only second nature after awhile. One of these many hats I wear, is that of lead network administrator, which is something I am particularly fond of… I love networking and everything about it (except maybe wiring racks and … Continue reading "On The Road: Network Disaster & Dual Public-Private Network"| R-fx Networks
It used to be all the talk, everyone knew it, accepted it but few did anything about it and still even today, very few do anything about it. What is it? Data Integrity. But it is not in the form of how we usually look at data integrity; it is not backups, raid management or … Continue reading "Data Integrity: AIDE for Host Based Intrusion Detection"| R-fx Networks
It has been a busy couple of weeks for the LMD project, lots of late nights and sleepless days behind me and I can say I am a ‘little’ happier with where things are in the project now 🙂| R-fx Networks
On this day eight years ago, Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) version 0.5 for Linux was publicly released. Since then, APF has stood the test of time and still remains to this day, one of the most widely used Linux firewall solutions, with especially high usage in the web hosting industry.| R-fx Networks