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RBL – Balcklist resources

https://www.adampalmer.me/iodigitalsec/2014/11/22/dns-black-list-rbl-checking-in-python/ https://0xbharath.github.io/python-network-programming/protocols/dns/index.html http://www.dnspython.org/docs/1.16.0/ https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/DNSBL%20Usage#366

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Insight into how Cloud Based Companies build their Products

There was a nice article on digital ocean about technical debt. The meat of the article included inisight into the architecture and workings of a cloud based vendor. You can read the article about the 15000 db connections to 100 on digitalocean’s blog The architecture looked like the image below in the end:

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Free Port forwarding/Tunneling Services

Public URL’s for exposing your webserver / free port forwarding https://ngrok.com/ https://portmap.io/ https://localtunnel.github.io/www/ http://pagekite.net/ These are also apparently tunneling services frequently used by attackers to evade defences. via @pmelson

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Allowing unverified HTTP Post’s by Elastalert

I am using Praeco as a frontend for the Elastalert API which relies on Elastalert. The problem I faced was that sending unverified requests failed, as elastalert didn’t allow verfiy=False. I searched the Elastalert code and found the place the request is being made, it is in alerts.py file, the class HTTPPostAlerter. I changed: response […]

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Functional Tests failing on Jenkins but not on local computer

Ever struggled with a test failing on jenkins using xvfb, well there are a few things you can do to ensure that both browsers work. Element Not Found Sometimes there is an ElementNotFound error on the server and not on your local. Usually this is because selenium cannot see the element. It is hidden. Usually this happens […]