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I'm looking for login logs, particularly from a mail server, to use as sample data. I've looked through a lot of public datasets but have been unable to find anything of the sort.
I'd like to be able to look at a log showing login attempts, with fields like time stamp, requester IP address, user account, success/fail, etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm not surprised you did not find anything.
the information is sensitive, and should not be shared. For example someone might accidentially mistype their password as login name. In the logs this will show up as failed login, and the next login from the same IP might then be the appropriate username.
this data is of little use to anyone, in particular if it is historic or has been anonymized. Why would anyone bother to share this kind of data?
Furthermore, login (and attack, assuming that you are looking into that) patterns change over time. So any conclusion drawn from historic data will likely no longer hold.
So you'll have to get this data fresh, and under NDA from someone that trusts you to not misuse it. If it actually is of any use.
You might have better success if you would look for aggregated data. Temporal patterns of user activity vs. failed logins, for example. But in any way, this site is about programming questions, not "where do I get data". You'll have to use Google mostly.
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Where is a good place to start with cyber security, not necessarily directly related to programming?
I'm looking to cover a wide range of issues:
Fire walls
Networking setup
XSS
SQL Injection
An then other things I don't know I don't know.
My current experience is some programming, some networking. I know to clean my user input before sending to a database, etc.
Where should I start? I'd like some print books to read, but other resources are also welcome.
As you're new to the topic and don't yet have specialised in a specific area of computer security, I highly recommend http://www.securitytube.net/. It offers a huge amount of free video based tutorials and other video material you can learn from. Especially you should go for the "Megaprimers" :)
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I am about to start work on a project to reduce the bandwidth usage of a web application. We are going to implement several techniques such as delayed loading of Javascript files until they are needed to try and reduce the overhead of running the application.
The first thing I want to do is test the current state of things so we can create a baseline. Ideally we would then like to automate this testing so that we can track the network usage of the application as we make our changes.
Can anyone suggest tools which are good at doing this? At it's most basic the tool needs to be manually run but extra brownie points will be given for suggestions of how to automate the test!
Thanks in advance.
Firebug (especially the Network Tab will show you everything a page loads with times and sizes.
You might also take a look at YSlow.
I would just use the logs of IIS. It's possible to log to text files. Then you can analyze your data with this tool.
If you don't want to get fancy, you can log via ODBC to a database, and query with plain SQL.
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I want to analyze the IIS logs for a website for things like hits, keywords, countries accessed from etc.
Has anyone used any (free) tools that were useful from this regard?
There's LogParser. Blog article about how to use it here. You need to be comfortable with SQL to use it, though. There's a GUI for it apparently, too. Don't have any experience with that, though.
Nihuo web log analyzer is very simple, easy to configure and very good in analyzing iis and apache access log files. The reports generated by this tool are also very good.
You can use it freely with full function for 30 days evaluation period.
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There is a simple answer to this don't..
Log files are next to useless to look at your website traffic, there are massively inaccurate, log file analysis is useful for network engineers looking at traffic management.
If you want to view who has looked at your website from where and with which broswer and what keyword was used to get there, just install goggle analytic although it does have a few downsides its much better for the information you require its also free.
Take a look at http://www.googlelytics.net/awstats-log-file-analysis-vs-google-analytics/ for a view of each.
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Like a lot of open-source developers I find myself interacting with maybe dozens of different projects' issue trackers - some for work, some as a hobbyist; some frequently, some more rarely; sometimes to report bugs, sometimes to contribute patches, sometimes to follow others' bug reports that affect me, sometimes to organize my own work on my own projects.
The problem is, this activity is scattered across different web apps (github, bitbucket, trac, bugzilla, mantis, jira, ...) on different projects all over the web and there's no one place to check status of issues I'm trying to stay on top of.
I want one dashboard kind of app where I can browse, search, and sort (by updated date, priority, etc) everything assigned to me, or any bugs I've reported, or any bugs I'm watching for updates - across all projects - without having to manually re-enter all those issues into the dashboard: I want to just feed it a URL to an existing issue in some other tracker and it'll track that issue's status for me.
You could almost get there with just an RSS feed reader, except to be really useful the app would need to know more about the relevant metadata so you can sort and filter as needed.
Has anybody built anything like that? Bonus if it provides write capabilities too, at least for common tasks like adding a comment, marking resolved.
I've never heard of any such thing, and I'm constantly wishing for it. If it doesn't exist I might have to take a crack at it.
I'm not sure if this will give you what you are looking for, but "undock" supports multiple issue trackers... wether it supports them all in one interface I'm not sure, but may be worth checking it out.
edit: yes, it does support them in one interface - the next question is whether you want to read them off a mobile device :-)
Anyway, hope it is of some use.
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Hi Ive been planning on doing a social network project and im wondering if there are readings on UX Design that I can read to base my site design on. Thanks.
Check out this question. My personal favorite is Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think.
You might be interested in reading specifically about how other social networking sites are reviewed.
Like when Facebook Redesigned:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/05/new-facebook-redesign-more-than-just-aesthetics/
Or a Twitter lead designer profile:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/design-mind-behind-twitter-hes-21
How Ning works:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/18321/
Definitely use as many social networking sites as possible to get inspired.
I have found Seductive Interaction Design helpful. There is a section about profile completeness and how to incorporate positive goals that compels your user to take the steps necessary towards completeness.
http://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Interaction-Design-Effective-Experiences/dp/0321725522
Other helpful sections on how to build in fun distractions and more importantly coming on too strong (and how not to!).
Hope this helps!