Security of a modperl enabled site

2002-03-19 Thread fred
Hi, I am in front of a security issue. We are running several site using modperl. Last days, a hacker used a script to call some script of our sites for bad purpose. He needed to be authenticated, but we are only using session cookies. Then, once he was loged in, he could retrieve this id and

Re: Security of a modperl enabled site

2002-03-19 Thread gidon
I've had people run password guessing scripts and stuff. I've handled it on a case by case basis, ie, limit the number of wrong guesses. There are a bunch of modules that can set limits as well which can come in handy against very brutish sorts of misuses of your site,. I used mod_throttle.c,

Re: Security of a modperl enabled site

2002-03-19 Thread victor
Try this. http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/ Tor. fred wrote: Hi, I am in front of a security issue. We are running several site using modperl. Last days, a hacker used a script to call some script of our sites for bad purpose. He needed to be authenticated, but we are only

Re: Security of a modperl enabled site

2002-03-19 Thread Perrin Harkins
I am in front of a security issue. We are running several site using modperl. Last days, a hacker used a script to call some script of our sites for bad purpose. He needed to be authenticated, but we are only using session cookies. Then, once he was loged in, he could retrieve this id and