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Stop Credential Stuffing Attacks with Cloudflare Bot Management
Cloudflare Bot Management can better detect and help mitigate malicious bots using multiple detection mechanisms like heuristics, behavioral analysis/anomaly detection, machine learning, and finger printing against a massive global volume of data. My colleague and I recently discussed and showed … Continue reading
Posted in Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Webinars, Networking, Perl, Programming Languages, Security, Tech Events, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Tagged ahmed, anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, better Internet, Bot Management, botmanagement, bots, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Managed Challenge, Cloudflare traffic sequence, Cloudflare WAF, credential stuffing, finger printing, heuristics, humair, Humair Ahmed, machine learning, Managed Challenge, price scraping, security, WAF, Webinar
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Webinar Recording: The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]
Had a great turnout for bot management webinar. Watch the recording to see how Cloudflare is moving the Internet away from CAPTCHAs and see it in action. Follow me on Twitter: @Humair_Ahmed
Posted in Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Webinars, Networking, Perl, Security, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Tagged ahmed, anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, better Internet, Bot Management, botmanagement, bots, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Managed Challenge, Cloudflare WAF, credential stuffing, credential stuffing attack, finger printing, heuristics, humair, Humair Ahmed, machine learning, Managed Challenge, security, WAF, Webinar
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Automation Leveraging NSX REST API Guide
I also published this blog post about automation leveraging the NSX REST API on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on June 21, 2016. The full blog post is provided below and can also be seen on the VMware NSX … Continue reading
Posted in APIs/SDKs, Java, Labs, Networking, Perl, Programming Languages, Python, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware, VMware NSX REST API
Tagged Ansible, automation, cloud management tools, cURL, Go, Java, Network Virtualization, NSX, NSX automation, NSX network virtualization, NSX REST API, NSX REST API Guide, NSX-V, perl, Postman, PowerShell, programming language frameworks, Python, REST Client, REST client libraries, VMware NSX, VMware NSX network virtualization, VMware NSX-V, VMware vRealize Orchestrator, VMware vRO, vRealize Orchestrator, vRO
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Monitoring VMware NSX SpoofGuard with REST API and Perl
I also published this blog post about monitoring VMware NSX SpoofGuard with REST API and Perl on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on June 17, 2016. The full blog post is provided below and can also be seen on … Continue reading
Posted in Labs, Network Architecture, Network Security, Networking, Perl, Programming Languages, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, VMware, VMware
Tagged Active IP Addresses, Automating VMware NSX Security, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, CPAN, Data::Validate::IP, Data::Validate::IP library, IP Address Spoofing, IP Addresses Pending Review, IP spoofing, NSX, NSX REST API, NSX REST API and Perl, NSX SpoofGuard, perl, Perl REST client, Perl REST client module/library, REST API, REST API and Perl, REST:Client, REST:Client library, REST:Client module, SpoofGuard, SpoofGuard Active IP Addresses, SpoofGuard Active Virtual NICs, SpoofGuard IP Addresses, SpoofGuard IP Addresses Pending Review, SpoofGuard states, spoofing, vmware, VMware NSX, XML, XML:Simple, XMLin
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Creator of Perl, Larry Wall, on Programming Languages
Creator of Perl, Larry Wall, when asked, “What are the five programming languages everyone, even non-programmers, should know about and why?”:
Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology
Tagged Creator of Perl, Larry Wall, perl, Programming Languages
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Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
One of my favorite development tools at an unbelievably low price – FREE! Can’t get much better than that. Download ‘Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers’ and give it a try. If you are not much of a Java/J2EE programmer, … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, J2EE, Java, Perl, Programming Languages, Python, Technology
Tagged C, C IDE, coding, Eclipse, Eclipse 4.2, Eclipse 4.2 SR2, Eclipse Juno, Eclipse Juno 4.2, Eclipse Juno 4.2 SR2, eclipse.org, IDE, Java, Java IDE, Juno, Juno 4.2, Juno 4.2 SR2, perl, Perl IDE, Programming Languages, Python, Python IDE
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Perl – Changing the Input Line Separator and Using the “chomp” Function
In this blog I demonstrate how you can change the input line separator in Perl and use Perl’s “chomp” function. Note, the input line separator is operating system dependent; see the following prior blog of mine where I discuss this … Continue reading
Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology
Tagged $/, $/ system variable, change the input line separator, chomp, chomp function, input line separator, input line separator system variable, input line separator variable, perl, perl input line separator system variable, perl input line separator variable, remove newline, remove newline character
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Perl – Uppercase to Lowercase Conversion via the Translation Operator
Perl’s translation operator provides a way to substitute one group of characters for another. In the below script I demonstrate how easy it is to use the translation operator to convert standard input from the command prompt from uppercase letters … Continue reading
Perl – Using Pattern-sequence Memory with Regular Expressions
Pattern-sequence memory is very useful when you want to match the same character in several places but don’t care which character you match as long as all occurrences are the same character. For example, the below code matches the date … Continue reading
Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology
Tagged pattern memory, pattern-sequence, pattern-sequence memory, Pattern-sequence Memory with Regular Expressions, perl, perl regular expressions, regex, regular expressions, sequence memory, Using Pattern-sequence Memory with Regular Expressions
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Perl – Obtain the File Size
Here is a cool one line Perl script you can use to quickly obtain the file size of a file. The syntax to run the script is “perl [scriptname] [filename]”; in the below example I use the script itself as … Continue reading
Posted in Perl, Programming Languages, Technology
Tagged -s, file size, file size operator, get file size, perl, perl file size operator, perl get file size
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