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Forums: Posted by Joseph Reeves
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What exactly is vulnerability management?
In: Junk
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Vulnerability Management is the concept of mitigating your security risk by knowing where your weaknesses ... |
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What is vulnerability assessment?
In: Junk
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The process of identifying weaknesses in a system. This is a broad concept, but when applied to IT, ... |
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What is a penetration test? It sounds scary!
In: Junk
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A penetration test or "pen-test" as they are commonly called, is the act of simulating an attack by ... |
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What is a vulnerability scanner?
In: Junk
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A piece of software that can scan a specified network for Vulnerabilities and report back with it's ... |
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What is a "probe" in the context of computer security?
In: Junk
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A specific exploit, packaged in an executable piece of code. Most Vulnerability Scanners launch a vast ... |
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What is an "injection" in the context of computer security?
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A type of exploit that attempts to inject malicious code into a program. A common form of this is the ... |
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What is "ethical hacking"? How can a hacker be ethical?
In: Junk
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A controversial term, this refers to the act of hacking a system or application in order to prove it's ... |
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Is syslogd the same on all platforms?
In: Junk
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As with most UNIX technologies, there are some platform-based differences in the {{syslogd}} configurations ... |
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Splunk not listening to the index directory you tell it at installation.
In: SplunkGeneral
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That bug has existed ever since 2.0 was released. I filed it back then and the developers are aware ...
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re: windows event log mis-classified/assigned to the syslog server
In: SplunkGeneral
Tags:
windows
eventlog
syslog
Hmm... this is a chaining problem. Do you know if Snare is adding a syslog header to the data before ...
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re: windows event log mis-classified/assigned to the syslog server
In: SplunkAdministration
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Hmm... this is a chaining problem. Do you know if Snare is adding a syslog header to the data before ...
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remove
In: SplunkGeneral
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If you installed in /opt, which is the default, A simple rm -Rf /opt/splunk should do the job. By default ...
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Uninstall Splunk
In: SplunkAdministration
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If you installed in /opt, which is the default, A simple rm -Rf /opt/splunk should do the job. By default ...
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splunkd running with way more than two processes
In: SplunkGeneral
Tags:
processes
cpu
Let me guess. You're using the tailing processor?
How many log files are you watching?
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Upload Button for Batch files has no Text
In: SplunkGeneral
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If you're getting a login window, that means you installed Splunk Professional.
There are some known ...
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no data indexed with splunk 2.0
In: SplunkGeneral
Tags:
no
data
indexed
with
splunk
2.0
splunkdb
Man, I've been looking for that environment variable to change! That will solve a lot of my problems.
Thanks ...
Hey Pierre, I responded to your email this morning. That should get you straightened out. For everyone ... Pierre, I know what's going on here. I had the same problem. You set your data directory for splunk ... |
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unattended installer in 2.0.4 ignores command-line parameters
In: SplunkGeneral
Tags:
install
installer
options
Make sure that you shut down splunk and move all the files in the default data directory to your new ...
Unfortunately, I don't have the solution to this, but I can add to the problem! :-) When using the ... |
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Linux install doesn't
In: SplunkGeneral
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Oh great, I hope they're not going to expect me to pay up when they fix it :-D
Links like #2 in your results refer to the old forums which AFAIK no longer exist. That is probably ... |
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Optimizing IO
In: SplunkGeneral
Tags:
disk
IO
slow
Hmmm... with only 7 million events your splunk instance should not be getting unresponsive. I've got ...
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Splunk returning odd results
In: SplunkGeneral
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The Splunk shell blowing up looks a lot like a cross-platform problem with the python methods being ...
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