Flyby Satellite Tracking on Raspberry Pi

Flyby is a satellite tracking application that runs in a terminal (no GUI required). I wanted to run it on my Raspberry Pi that has a display attached to it so I can carry it outside with me when tracking amateur satellites. This is much easier to move around than a laptop or even my phone where I have to keep the screen from going to sleep or touching something on the screen.Setting up Flyby on a Raspberry Pi was a bit of a challenge but it is now working fine. Here’s my setup steps: ...

July 22, 2017 · 3 min

Introducing mod_serverheader

mod_serverheader project site In my work, I have seen people performing security scans, going through audits, and stumbling upon information they wish they could hide about their webservers. One of the simplest questions that comes up over-and-over is regarding the Server header in Apache HTTPD responses; the thing with the arrows are pointing to below: # curl -I http://localhost/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:56:24 EST Server: Apache/2.4.25 (Fedora) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips ◀◀◀◀◀◀◀◀ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 There are a couple ways to reduce what is disclosed in the Server header. ...

March 19, 2017 · 2 min

ModSecurity 2.9.x in 5 minutes

There are just a few fundamental pieces to learn in order to get started with ModSecurity. Phases Actions and Rules Collections Phases There are 5 phases of request processing in ModSecurity 1. You can hook into any one these phases using the phase keyword when writing ModSecurity Actions and Rules. The 5 phases occur in this order: Request Headers Phase Request Body Phase Response Headers Phase Response Body Phase Logging Phase As you pass through the phases, you can still access the information from the previous phases. So, if you are not sure where to begin, start with Logging Phase 5. ...

March 1, 2017 · 5 min