Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Recently had a requirement to construct a LoadRunner harness that could sftp files (over ssh) to and from remote servers. As some of the harnesses were already written in Java (for loading of JMS queues) it made sense to use a Java Vuser to achieve the result required.
A work colleague ...
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
I often use a combination of cygwin with ssh to remotely manage windows servers, as I find this to be a quicker (and hopefully safer) method of access to my windows boxes. To that end, I often need to check windows application event logs. Typically you'd use the mmc, but ...
Posted in Perl, Win2K3, Security, Analysis | No Comments »
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
For an internet facing SSH server, it is probably common practice to have sshd listening on a non-standard port. Coupled with key pair authentication, this reduces the profile you present to simple brute force attacks.
Connecting to a SSH server on a non standard port is relatively simple:
ssh -p username@servername.com
You ...
Posted in Win2K3, Network, Security | No Comments »
