Category Archives: Perl

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

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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

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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

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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

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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?”:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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