Security

Setting up DVWA

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Ed Goad 0 Comments security

DVWA ( http://www.dvwa.co.uk/ ) is a very useful tool for learning about web-based security. This is not just useful for

Setting up a central syslog archive

November 18, 2015July 28, 2019 Ed Goad 0 Comments

Working in a large’ish environment, things will occasionally break, then leave you trying to recover the pieces. One the of

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Authenticating to APIs part 2

Continuing our discussion of authenticating to APIs to better keep our authentication tokens safe. Using the Python ConfigParser module to store passwords and tokens in a separate file, and then accessing them programmatically.

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Authenticating to APIs part 1

Introduction to using APIs that require authentication. Walking through the GitHub API documentation, creating a Personal Access Token for GitHub, and authenticating against their API.

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HaveIBeenPwned API part 2

Continuing our use of the HaveIBeenPwned API and using this in a more dynamic Python script. This allows us to automatically look for a specific password and return its status to the user.

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HaveIBeenPwned API part 1

Using the HaveIBeenPwned public API to test passwords for security. Validating if passwords have been found in online security breaches before.

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JSON and APIs

An introduction to working with JSON data returned from APIs. Specifically, creating a script to find out how many people are in space at this moment, and then parsing the JSON data to make it readable and accessible

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Introduction to APIs

A brief introduction to working with online APIs and the tools to access them

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