I shared a while back that I had decided to pick up two dedicated servers... rather than worrying about buying hardware and paying colo fees, I went with just paying fees... high fees, but fees none-the-less. I picked up one windows machine and one linux machine and I've been playing with them quite a bit.
One of the things I got to do was remember everything I learned in school and configure various services in a working "production" state. It's one thing to setup a piece of software to test against... it's another to configure it, and lock it down to a state you're comfortable with having online.
One of the things I decided to do was to pick up an extra IP and setup nepenthes listening. I decided to register the domain scan-me.org to attach to it. The domain may seem to obvious but I figure automatted tools looking at IP addresses or links to domains (required link for any bots to pick up).
I've had it listening for about a month with nepenthes 0.2.0. I attempted to upgrade to the latest svn version so that I could include the listener for MS08-067 but my first attempt went rather poorly and I ended up with nothing listening. I'm back to 0.2.0 for now, however I do plan to attempt another upgrade in the near future.
I'm hoping mentioning the domain here will increase the number of scans and quantity of traffic that it sees (anyone that wants to feel free to repost the address). As I've seen limited samples coming in so far, however those samples do make for some fun nights (I suppose I have an odd definition of fun).
Anyways... I just wanted to share that I had nepenthes running and get a blog post out with the domain mentioned. In the upcoming weeks I hope to post some write-ups related to the samples I'm seeing.
From the email:
We have the URLs for the new SBN site. You can access the site at http://www.securitybloggersnetwork.com or http://www.securitybloggers.net. Right now the site is simple, but we will build it up over time. Check it out and make sure your feed is displaying correctly -- but your blog title should be automatically generated by your RSS. Also, please do your best to promote the new site and feed, as traffic to it helps us all!
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I know I've been a little lazy when it comes to posting lately, but I plan on posting more going forward... hopefully anyways.
Odd Title... but it's 3:30am.
The first thing I wanted to mention was KiTTY ( via /dev/random). It's a fork of PuTTY, which is nice given PuTTY is on a rather slow development cycle, and new features are almost non-existent. Some of the features include folders within the saved sessions box (although, not implemented as "friendly" as they could be), transparency (this didn't work for me), login scripts (also didn't work for me) and integrated scp support. The features list is actually quite a bit longer than that, feel free to read it on the KiTTY website. As mentioned, a number of the features didn't work for me. I'm going to give it a try on a second computer before I rule it out, but I wanted to mention it now. A second bad experience would most likely lead to me never using it or mentioning it here, and it may work wonderfully for others.
The second thing I wanted to mention is that Komodo Edit 5.0 (the free version of Komodo IDE) is now available. Some of the biggest things are limited to Komodo IDE unfortunately, such as Source Code Checkout capabiliies and the ability to "beautify" your code. It does provide some UI clean-up and an update to Firefox 3.0 in the Edit version though.
One of the problems that I had was that my favourite plugin, Sourcetree ended up attached to the left pane instead of the right pane, which is very unnatural to me. It took me a couple of hours, but I dove into plugins for the first time, opening the jar file and pulling out the javascript. After I tracked down the name of the two panes online (not easily documented), I was able to modify the code and re-archive it. If anyone wants a step by step, or just my modified file, let me know.
This is a "wish post". I'm a huge fan of Google Apps, I love using my @computerdefense.org email address with everything Google and having it inside of GMail is great. However there are a number of labs features that I would love to have access to and don't get because I use Google Apps intead of GMail. So this is a request that Google make the Labs feature of GMail available to Google Apps users.
