This is a rough script that almost works. There’s a couple bugs with the Perl module, but overall does some really tough things that I didn’t have time to program myself - such as the ability to match a syslog entry with ACLs that contain object groups (or even multiple ones for that matter).

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use Compress::Zlib;
use [...]

While reading through some mailing lists that I subscribe to, this one in particular came to my attention on the GIAC mailing list. Mainly because I have Sirius myself.
Fellow Colleagues:
Recently I canceled service from Sirius satellite radio. After I canceled service the friendly lady helping me reminded me that I could start my service back [...]

I’m a big fan of the Blackberry. It’s a very useful tool. Not only can I be bothered at all hours of the night by server alerts, 3rd shift personnel, and spam mail; but I can also check my GMail, locate street maps, play some games, and listen to MP3s that are stored on the [...]

I wrote this quick script to find items that are missing in text files. Not the difference (where order matters) but find what is missing from one and present in the other (such as a file of codes/numbers).

#/usr/bin/perl -X
#
# Compare files and return the missing items from MainFile
#
 
$MainFile = "$ARGV[0]";
$SrchFile = "$ARGV[1]";
 
my @Main = ();
my [...]

I found this entry in my webserver log files today (excerpt)…
“[20/Aug/2007:19:05:21 -0400] “GET /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:) HTTP/1.1″ 400
Turns out to be a web-app vulnerability scanner… and obviously an old one.