Anyone looking at log management for various reasons has probably heard the name ELK thrown around whenever the conversation turns to open source solutions. This stack is composed of three different tools, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana which come together to form a pretty good tool for digging through various logs. Read more…
The released script will take a given log directory, normally your website log directory, and search it for attempts to exploit the server using the recently released GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash) vulnerability also known as Shell Shock. Once it identifies these entries, it will output them into a separate Read more…
This set of problems was anything but a fun error to encounter, even though the fix was easy. I troubleshot this problem for the better part of 3 hours before finding the solution. Most importantly noted, is that most of the information currently on the internet was of no help and pointed in Read more…
So I was working on getting things up and running with a web host and I encountered a problem with uploading files which generated a generic "500 Internal Server Error" which is about as descript as a white sheet of paper sitting in a field of snow on a glacier. Read more…