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Category: Security
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Published: Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:43
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Written by Ben Tasker
PHPChangedBinaries is a simple server monitoring script. It's designed and exists to do one thing - detect and notify when system files change.
I've been running a very similar script for years, but in the wake of CDorked/DarkLeech decided it needed a refresh. The script works by generating checksums for all files within pre-configured paths (you can add more through the configuration file). These are then checked against a stored hash to see if anything has changed - if it has, the system admin is alerted.
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Category: Linux
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Published: Sunday, 14 April 2013 23:16
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Written by Ben Tasker
In order to be able to run some destructive testing on customer's systems, I needed to set up virtual servers. The hardware I have spare doesn't have virtualisation hardware, so KVM is out. Due to time constraints, it means my usual choice of CentOS is out (as RH have dropped support for Xen in RHEL6 and I lack the time to risk delays).
So, I figured I'd use Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) for my Dom0.
The hardware is an old HP G3 with dual Xeon processors and 3GB RAM. It's never going to be much use for testing dedicated servers, but as a lot of VPS configurations are set to 1 core/ 1GB RAM it just about passes the mark.
This documentation details the steps I took to get Xen installed and set up - every step listed can be run via SSH (assuming you do a net install of the base system), but be aware that if something goes wrong you might need physical access to the system to resolve it.
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