Hardware monitoring with twitter.

[bhoff at itworldclass.com (bhoff at itworldclass.com)]

Well the  tweets are private. And having to install some sort of mailserver the risk out weighed the latter. Plus I am 
just giving status green,yellow,orange,red,black.
Or something like othgyk1 rebooted at date.
Not to much there that would help an attacker.
And now I have almost instant notification of an attempt. Gives me time to log in see what is happening and do some 
fancy rerouting to /dev/null :)

------Original Message------
From: Bert Van Kets
To: bhoff at itworldclass.com
To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Hardware monitoring with twitter.
Sent: Sep 4, 2009 3:09 PM

So you put the status of your firewall on an external system you have no
control over.......
Hmmmmmm. I would never do that. ;-)


bhoff at itworldclass.com wrote:
> A little update to my firewall project. I have ripped out sendmail...and now using twitter to monitor my firewalls 
> health along with my windows/linux servers.
> This is great as I have now reduced the overhead on the hardware and reduced vuln. In the appliance.
> Thanks goes out to tcstool for pointing out an app shown on hak5 to make a bat file into a windows service. Future 
> projects include using this with my ips and ids systems.   Thoughts
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