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LMD Signatures: RSS Feed & XML
May 12th
While I was making some signature updates this afternoon, It occurred to me that it might be useful if the signatures were available through an RSS feed for update tracking or should anyone want to serialize the importing of my signature data into other applications.
The signatures can be access in two data formats, the first is an RSS feed that presents the 50 most recent signatures published. The second is an XML element tree that can be queried by signature ID or for all/recent signatures. There is nothing fancy about either of these data sources, information is presented clean and More >
Better Late Than Never: Linux Malware Detect 1.3
May 12th
Today I have released Linux Malware Detect (LMD) 1.3, the first public stable release of my malware detection tool. The documentation is a little thin but the details are on the project page and the README file should fill you in on anything you need to know, otherwise you can post a comment on the bottom of the project page and I will assist where possible. Input on feature ideas, bugs and malware data is always welcome, see the –help options on LMD for the checkout feature to upload malware data to rfxn.com.
In October I detailed the concepts behind the More >
Linux Malware Detectection
Oct 19th
[ UPDATE: Linux Malware Detect has been released ] I have the last few weeks been working on a new project for malware detection on Linux web servers, it is already at a pre-release version in use at work and it has shown phenomenal promise.
Right to it, some background… On a daily basis the network I manage receives a large number of attacks, most of these are web based abuses against common web application vulnerabilities which inject/upload to servers an array of malware such as phishing content, defacement tools, exploits for privilege escalation and irc c&c bots. All these actions are typically More >
