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HTTPoxy – Is your nginx affected?

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date July 20, 2016
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httpoxy is a set of vulnerabilities that affect application code running in CGI, or CGI-like environments. It comes down to a simple namespace conflict: RFC 3875 (CGI) puts the HTTP Proxy header from a request into the environment variables as [Read More…]

Database Systems Linux System

Messing around PL/Tcl on PostgreSQL

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date July 4, 2016
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Some days back, i was having an issue whilst activating the PL/Tcl extension/language on PostgreSQL. Luckily, it was possible with the help from Mauricio Cortes, a guy from the Facebook group PostgreSQL Server. Let’s first see what is TCL package. “PL/Tcl [Read More…]

Linux System Security

Operation Prison Break by cyberstorm.mu – Sandboxing and Firejail

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date June 25, 2016
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This is yet another successful hackathon carried out under the umbrella of cyberstorm.mu. Branded by the theme “Operation PB – Prison Break”, members of cyberstorm.mu shows skills of security innovations. We have also Rahul who is our proud newest member [Read More…]

Linux System Networking and Hardware

CURL Linux commands

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date May 11, 2016
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I must confess part of this blog post has been lingering in my drafts for quite some time. Despite a prolonged hiatus from writing, I’ve decided to take a shot at it now. So, let’s delve into the world of [Read More…]

Linux System

Linux Performance & Analysis – Strace and syscall

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date May 8, 2016
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A quick look at the manual of Strace would show you an indication that the strace command is used to trace system calls and signals. The desciption part stipulates that “In the simplest case strace runs the specified command until [Read More…]