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Use a Photo Tripwire to Protect Your Webmail

May 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Jeremiah Grossman, of WhiteHat Security, offers a nice little life hack to alert you if your webmail is ever accessed, (or rather, if your alarm email is ever opened). It’s a nifty trick. To make it work though, you have to monitor your web server access logs to see if your alarm email ever accessed your secret alarm photo, which might be a pain to do on a regular basis. It would be cool to have an email sent to you by your web server if that photo was ever requested. You would also need to make sure that photo doesn’t get indexed by any search engines using robots.txt to keep it from being accessed by anyone or anything to prevent false alarms.

Tags: Email Security

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Landon Lewis // May 3, 2007 at 7:32 pm

    Just use something like syslog-ng to alert once a certain pattern is matched in your access logs, very simple.

  • 2 Jon Robinson // May 3, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks Landon. I figured there must be a good way to handle that.

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