http://www.itworld.com/perl xx http://www.itworld.com/tech-amp-society/82470/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. http://www.itworld.com/tech-amp-society/82470/your-web-site-under-attack#comments Security How-to buffer overflow Perl Sandra Henry-Stocker SQL injection web logs Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:24:27 -0400 Sandra Henry-Stocker 82470 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/74909/peer-pick-perl-scripts-interact-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 http://www.itworld.com/development/74909/peer-pick-perl-scripts-interact-twitter-api#comments Development Open Source Opinion application Perl Twitter Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:40:32 -0400 ITworld staff 74909 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66809/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.  http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66809/digesting-log-data-part-2#comments Open Source How-to Perl Unix Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:32:01 -0400 ITworld staff 66809 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66808/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.  http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66808/digesting-log-data#comments Open Source How-to Perl Unix Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:26:07 -0400 ITworld staff 66808 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/61380/dynamic-languages-not-just-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. http://www.itworld.com/development/61380/dynamic-languages-not-just-scripting-any-more#comments Development Feature Perl python Ruby tcl Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:18:11 -0500 ITworld staff 61380 at http://www.itworld.com