Technical Blog


returning JSON from a view in CakePHP 1.1

I know CakePHP 3.5 is out, and before CakePHP 2.x and even before CakePHP 1.3 allowed to render JSON easily. But suppose you have a large code-base in CakePHP 1.1 you have to maintain, and suddenly someone wants JSON out of it… If upgrading your CakePHP version is possible, do it. Else, consider the code […]


lambdatrail hardware

Monitoring DeltaNet Lambdatrail WDM devices

DeltaNet has cool WDM products that one of our customer has deployed in a life-cycle project for a large WAN. In collaboration with the DeltaNet engineer, I have implemented a Zenoss ZenPack to monitor the specifics of their Lambdatrail XWDM multiplexers. The ZenPack provide these features: devices located under their own device class collect all […]


Nextcloud scanning

Having installed the latest Netxcloud on my server, I added ModSecurity and CRS 3 on the Apache instance. After some tuning and the configuration of geoIP with the help of our very own Christian Folini, I watched the logs fly by during a few hours and noticed scan.nextcloud.com accessing my /status.php. By going to this /status.php […]


An A7 First Aid Kit

Let’s consider Dave Wichers and the OWASP Top 10 project resists all the pressure and the 2017 edition of OWASP Top 10 will include the new A7 “Insufficient Attack Protection”. Lately the discussion has turned more constructive so maybe that prospect is not all that unrealistic. But honestly, I can not tell if A7 will […]