May 2018 – Lukas Vileikis

Other uses of .htaccess: Making a .htaccess-based WAF

May 25, 2018 Colors Comments 0 Comment

If you’re a web developer, you’re probably fammiliar with .htaccess. If you’re not, let me give you a quick introduction: .htaccess is a part of Apache. A .htaccess file provides a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis without needing to edit Apache’s main configuration files. .htaccess is useful for many purposes: it can be used for URL rewriting, IP address blocking, restricting access to certain directories and so on. What I’m going to focus on today is probably a bit…

An old Ticket System Security Analysis

May 14, 2018 Colors Comments 0 Comment

Since I started building websites few years ago, I’ve created a few projects. Some of them never saw daylight, some of them were deleted upon creation, some of them still reside in my project archive. When I was trawling through the archive a few days ago, I came across one of them. It was a ticket system I first made back in April 2016 – the whole project was dubbed a “Secure Ticket System” so it instantly caught my attention….

BreachDirectory has passed the 5 Billion record mark – here’s what it means

May 7, 2018 Colors Comments 0 Comment

When I first began creating BreachDirectory, I thought I’d see at most a hundred million records. Okay, maybe half a billion. But this, this is something else altogether.. Today, BreachDirectory has passed the 5 billion record mark. I’m not sure whether this is a celebratory occasion though, because five billion – billion – people having their data compromised in one way or another is never a good thing. But hey, that is the reality of the web today. Data breaches are…