How-To install and configure Brute Force Detection (BFD)

BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures. There is not much complexity or detail to BFD yet and likewise it is very straight-forward in its installation, configuration and usage. The reason behind BFD is very simple; the fact there is [...]

Apache Infrastructure Team
apache.org incident report for 04/09/2010 Apache.org services recently suffered a direct, targeted attack against our infrastructure, specifically the server hosting our issue-tracking software.
 The Apache Software Foundation uses a donated instance of Atlassian JIRA as an issue tracker for our projects. Among other projects, the ASF Infrastructure Team uses it to track issues and requests. [...]

Introduction

SrvReport is a simple and featurefull server monitoring and reporting system. It can send every day a mail with the latest state of the server including:

Network traffic report (including graph per hour)
Network traffic via ‘iptables’
Web-server traffic and vhost report
CPU usage report (including dayly graph per quater)
Xfer-logs (ftp)
Analyse of postfix/sendmail mail-log (to, from, size)
Analyse of qpopper [...]