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