Is Your Web Site Under Attack?
If you have a web site, the answer is undoubtedly "yes". Someone somewhere or, more likely, quite a few someones are attempting to attack your site or the system on which it is running. Assuming hackers have found your site and are testing it for holes that they might crawl through, let's take a look at how you can uncover evidence of their exploits with a quick examination of your web logs.
Peer pick: Perl scripts to interact with Twitter API
"Up until a couple of months ago I had not used a debugger since my FORTRAN days. But I found that it was far easier to develop simple Perl scripts to interact with the Twitter API using a debugger (Komodo) than it was to write a bunch of test scripts." - Ed Borasky
Digesting Log data - part 2
Last week, we looked at a script that digests log files by making clever use of Perl's impressive implementation of arrays. This week, we look at a pared down version of the same script, paying close attention to performance and making some significant efficiency improvements. Though Perl seems to provide us with many ways of accomplishing the same task as does Unix in general, some methods are considerably more efficient than others.
Digesting log data
Reducing voluminous log data to a size that can be read and understood in a matter of minutes can make the difference between systems administrators having the time to review log data on a routine basis and only reviewing it when a problem has become so noticeable that an analysis is unavoidable.
Dynamic Languages: Not Just For Scripting Any More
Because of their potential for high productivity, scripting languages have come to occupy a greater and greater part of the programming landscape, including systems programming and commercial, installable, "shrink-wrapped" products.
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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Peer pick: Perl scripts to interact with Twitter API
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