In March we moved from Groove to Zendesk – with this migration our Knowledge Base (KB) moved also. The challenge we faced was name-spacing – KB articles hosted on Groove were in the name-space http://help.canary.tools/knowledge_base/topics/, but the namespace /knowledge* is reserved on Zendesk and is not available for our use. This forced us to migrate all KB pages to new URLs and update the cross-references between articles. This addressed the user experience when one lands at our KB portal by …
Month: May 2020
InfoSec superstar (and long-time Canary fan) theGrugq recently mused on twitter about generating alerts when certain binaries are run on your hosts. We definitely think it has its uses, and we figured it would be worth discussing a quick way to make this happen (using the existing http://canarytokens.org) TL;DR: You can pass arbitrary data to a web-token allowing you to use it as a reliable, generic alerter of sorts. We often refer to our Web and DNS Canarytokens as our …