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Thing 1: Down
After nearly 2 years of running an OpenCanary in Oracle Cloud, it seems they decided to kill the...
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Monthly Statistics
Canary, Hits? Starting with the big numbers, the three OpenCanary instances have seen nearly 5.5 million events in...
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Mastodon posts from OpenCanary
The OpenCanary instances are now providing daily summaries into Mastodon. Those summaries give information on what connections the...
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OpenCanary 3.0: HowTo
Host and Operating System The basis for any OpenCanary installation is the operating system. Linux is preferred, it...
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Extending OpenCanary Monitoring
Expect the Unexpected The unexpected can happen when running OpenCanary instances and this demands some adapting. It’s considerably...
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OpenCanary: Login Banner Security
In the greater scheme of things, login warning banners exist to fulfil control requirements. They exist to support...
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OpenCanary 3.0 – Evolution not Revolution
USA versus Germany versus Switzerland The OpenCanary trio have been running for some time but, looking at the...
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Splunk Migration
Too much success with logs Today, it became clear that the virtual host I created for Splunk to...
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The Top 50 Credentials as seen by #1, #2 and #3
With over 20 million connection attempts hitting the 3 OpenCanary instances during 2023, a cross-section of the most...
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OpenCanary: The Tyranny of the Default
These are the credentials that the three OpenCanary instances have seen. Star Wars-style!