June 2011 archives

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June 30, 2011 by CyberRad

Deter unwanted scanners/crawlers using Weblabyrinth

Weblabyrinth is a dynamic maze of web pages written in PHP.  The main goal of Weblabyrinth is to delay and occupy malicious web scanners to give incident handlers time to investigate and respond to threats.  Weblabyrinth is designed to show a 404 error to legitimate web crawlers based on the crawlers user-agent.  Here is how [...]

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June 17, 2011 by CyberRad

Audit your site using w3af

Maintaining a website can be a large task.  On the security side of the day to day tasks for the site you usually patch the web server and check the logs for potential issues.  There are many automated tools that are out there scanning the internet for vulnerable web servers to compromise.  Typically a compromised [...]