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syslog for fun (and profit?) – olf 2023 talk

Posted on 8 September 20238 September 2023 By antipaucity No Comments on syslog for fun (and profit?) – olf 2023 talk

I had the privilege of speaking at this year’s Ohio Linux Fest on the topic of syslog Slidedeck PDF – https://antipaucity.com/olf2023-syslog.pdf If you would like me to give this, or any other, talk for your organization, please contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter You can watch the talk from OLF’s live stream of the event…

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lug, news, personal, technical

behind this website – a more-detailed checklist

Posted on 12 June 202312 June 2023 By antipaucity No Comments on behind this website – a more-detailed checklist

Found https://github.com/jonkeegan/behind-this-website today It is a much-expanded and more-detailed version of what I wrote 2 years ago Nice job, guys

technical, update

a rich man’s fieldsummary

Posted on 10 January 202310 January 2023 By antipaucity No Comments on a rich man’s fieldsummary

The Splunk command fieldsummary is amazing – I use it quite frequently to explore more “new” (to me) sourcetypes, and to find out about more fields than I’ve previously used in the sourcetypes I work with most. But sometimes you want to be able to delineate more granularly than fieldsummary will allow. Maybe you have…

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on using nmap to help find tlstorm-affected devices

Posted on 11 March 202211 March 2022 By antipaucity No Comments on on using nmap to help find tlstorm-affected devices

You may have heard of the recently-discovered/-published TLStorm vulnerability that affects – at least – APC SmartUPS devices. One of the prime issues highlighted is the embedded nanoSSL library that APC has used on these systems. If you want to find out if your system is affected, the following nmap except should start you towards…

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storage series

Posted on 13 August 2021 By antipaucity No Comments on storage series

Some of the content is mildly dated, but this series of posts a few years ago is still something I refer to quite often:

technical

determining the ‘legitimacy’/’reliability’ of a domain

Posted on 4 August 2021 By antipaucity No Comments on determining the ‘legitimacy’/’reliability’ of a domain

I’ve recently been asked by several people to investigate websites (especially e-commerce ones) for reliability/legitimateness. Thought someone else may find my process useful, and/or have some ideas on how to improve it ? So here goes: Pop a terminal window (I’m on a Mac, so I open Terminal – feel free to use your terminal…

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technical, tutorial

3-month review

Posted on 13 July 202113 July 2021 By antipaucity No Comments on 3-month review

I’ve been running an M1-powered MacBook Pro since late April. Here’s my experience so far: it Just Works™ That’s it That’s the tweet Want more? Sure! Battery life is bonkers-awesome! I can run for over a full working day with my VDI client, YouTube, web browser sessions, ssh, several chat apps (including video and audio…

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personal, review, technical

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