Push Synology syslogs to Splunk

This article walks you through the steps that are needed to get the Log messages from your Synology NAS out and into a Splunk instance.                 For the sake of simplicity I assume in this example that the IP address of the Synology NAS is 192.168.10.99 and that the IP of the Server running is 192.168.10.200   1) Prepare Splunk First let’s prepare Splunk to receive syslog messages Click on Manager       Select “Data Inputs”             Click “Add...

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FinFisher beats Carrier IQ

  The FinFisher Trojan is government spyware that is installed via a phony iTunes update. Your iPhone could be spying on you, according to the latest documents from Wikileaks, called the Spyfiles…   (Via CultOfMac: If You Thought Carrier IQ Scandal Was Bad, Wait Till You See Latest...

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Automatically sync files across Macs via iCloud

  Did you know that you can sync any document between your Macs by using a little trick? In fact, every document you put in the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will get synced through iCloud. read the whole story...

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Pixelmator 2.0 Now Available

Finally the long awaited Pixelmator 2.0 is available.   Check out this review: Pixelmator 2.0 Now Available On The Mac App Store, Our First...

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Private Eye – Check who’s phoning home

  There are a miryad of possibilities to check what connections are active on your Mac. Rubbernet, Little Snitch and Dtrace (for the unafraid) are only two of them… Now there is a new small and free tool called Private Eye that sort of formats the Dtrace output in a nice way, so you can verify strange outgoing or incoming connections. You can download it here – everyone should have this on his...

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NetworkMiner packet analyzer – Version 1.1 available

NetworkMiner is a free Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows that can detect the OS, hostname and open ports of network hosts through packet sniffing or by parsing a PCAP file. (Via Sourceforge)

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