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Signature Updates: Month In Review
Jul 24th
Since I will be busy this coming week with other priorities, I am posting an early month in review blog on signature updates.
In the last 3 weeks we have not seen a whole lot of action on in-the-wild malware, most of what is propagating at the moment are variants of already detected content. That is however not to say there has not been new signatures extracted, allot of this months signatures have come from account level compromises on vulnerable e107, wordpress and joomla installations along with user submissions. There is not a whole lot of ground breaking malware threats, More >
Projects: The personal costs
Jul 20th
When you do open source development, especially as an independent developer, there is a constant struggle that must be balanced between that of work and personal obligations. As any open source developer will tell you, 99% of the time, the projects we develop fall strictly into the realm of personal time, no matter how much they may apply to our work field. It is difficult to justify the time that is required in maintaining one let alone a series of active projects when you also work a full-time job while trying to have some semblance of a life.
So, when you More >
rfxn.com In Numbers
May 27th
Yup, nothing to see here except numbers…
2,018: Downloads of the newest project, Linux Malware Detect, month to date. 2,294: Signatures for Linux Malware Detect. 6,207: Downloads for all projects for the month to date. 14,176: Google results with link backs to rfxn.com or related domains (i.e: r-fx.org, rfxn.org etc..). 30,061: Active APF installations relative to unique IP’s fetching the reserved.networks file daily. 70,826: Project downloads for the last 12 months, May 2009 – April 2010. 133,931: Total visitor session to rfxn.com, month to date. 258,154: The number of web sites protected by APF (passed unique install IP’s to domainsbyip.com). 1,231,604: Total hits to rfxn.com, month to date.
More >Linux Malware Detect v1.3.6: Loose Ends
May 24th
In LMD 1.3.3 there was allot of changes, 29 to be exact, that made LMD much more robust and especially the monitoring component, much more usable. If that release was about making good things better, then this release is about bringing loose ends together. I spent a couple of days running LMD through its paces along with having many people help me test it and during that process, we brought allot of little things to the surface that needed fixing or revising.
In total, there has been 31 changes, fixes or new additions to LMD since that 1.3.3 release on the More >
Let The Rewrites Begin: New Life For PRM
May 24th
In my last post, I reflected on the last 7-8 years of projects here at rfxn.com, in doing so I also dug up some statistics on project downloads. I not only did this for my own curiosity but to prioritize the mile long to do list I have for the projects, based on downloads. One of the revealing things was just exactly what people are downloading, in particular that projects like LES , PRM & SIM are still very popular download destinations on the site.
Although a new incarnation of APF & BFD are on the agenda, I thought I would More >
