security

An Innocent Mount Issue

I work as a freelance contractor for about a year now, I quit a 10+ years regular CTO job to give into more technical subjects, troubleshoot, code, build infrastructures, A-Team style, I help companies with complex matters that might require experience and rigorousness. One of my last missions was really, really fun to deal with. A rather big company handling scientific, secret-level data, had an issue with their storage system.

Running snoopy on NetBSD

Snoopy is a pretty cool piece of software that can log every exec(3) call to syslog. When it comes to security, that feature can be really handy. Yesterday (Dec. 5), I commited security/snoopy to pkgsrc. The package comes with GNU/Linux related scripts in order to modify /etc/ld.so.preload so libsnoopy is loaded before libc and achieve its role. NetBSD doesn’t have a ld.so.preload file, instead, we use a flexible /etc/ld.so.conf configuration file which has the following syntax: