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BlackHat EU 2012 – Day 2

Welcome back friends, at day 2 of BlackHat Europe 2012, held in the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in the wonderful city of Amsterdam.

Today, I’m going to do things slightly different.  I will try to post write-ups immediately after Read more

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Cheat sheet : Installing Snorby 2.2 with Apache2 and Suricata with Barnyard2 on Ubuntu 10.x

After spending a few hours fighting a battle against Snorby and Apache2 + Passenger, I finally managed to get it to run properly on my Ubunty 10.x box (32bit). Looking back, I figured I might not be the only one who is having issues with this. So I decided to publish the notes I took while setting everything up, and as a little bonus, explain how to install and configure Suricata as well (configured in combination with barnyard2 which will pick up local logs and send them to the remote MySQL server). Read more
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Blog performance

I have noticed some blog performance issues over the last couple of days, so I have decided to make some system changes on the web and database servers that are hosting this blog.

These changes are in place, but Read more

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PHP performance on Windows 2008/IIS7

My discussion forum has been running for more than a month now, and I guessed it was about time to have a look at the performance of the web site.

The forum is based on bbPress, uses PHP Read more

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