Liran Tal is an AI security researcher and Node.js security expert focusing on securing agentic AI workflows, MCP, and software supply chains through research, education, and open-source work.
213 articles from this blog
A technical guide on configuring Munin and Apache's mod_status module to monitor web server health and performance metrics.
A review of the book 'Instant Munin Plugin Starter', covering its practical guide to creating monitoring plugins for the Munin system.
A guide on using Munin, a lightweight monitoring tool, to track Drupal application statistics like users, nodes, and comments.
A bug fix patch for Drupal Commons 3's Radioactivity module has been officially committed to the project.
How to prevent Drupal from sending email notifications when programmatically updating nodes using node_save().
Announcement of the publication of 'Drupal 7 Rules How-to', a practical guide for site builders and developers using the Rules framework.
An overview of daloRADIUS, an advanced open-source RADIUS web management platform for hotspots and ISPs, featuring user management and reporting.
Explains a fix for the Drupal Attachment Links module to make files open in-browser instead of forcing downloads.
Explains implementing granular, role-based access control for nodes within Drupal's Organic Groups (OG) module, focusing on query logic.
A technical guide on implementing fine-grained, role-based node access control within Drupal groups, extending the OG Users Roles module.
Explains Drupal's node access system, covering the node_access table, grant records, and module hooks for implementing role-based access control.
A technical guide to implementing complex, user-specific role-based access control (RBAC) in Drupal's node system, covering hooks and query rewriting.
A technical guide on how to restrict Drupal's upload module to allow only a specific number of file attachments per node.
A technical guide on maintaining state between form submissions and node hooks in Drupal 6 using the node object as temporary storage.
How to alter Drupal's WYSIWYG editor settings to use absolute image URLs, fixing broken images in email content notifications.
A technical guide on customizing Drupal Commons by altering menu items to move a 'bookmarks' link into the tabbed navigation using hook_menu_alter.
A technical guide to creating a Drupal module for custom MySQL ORDER BY FIELD() sorting in Views, addressing a specific sorting limitation.
Explains how to use the Gearman job server with Drupal 6 to offload and process background tasks asynchronously.
The author announces a major website restructuring, moving daloRADIUS to a static site and migrating blog content to a new Drupal platform.
daloRADIUS adds invoice and payment management features to its billing system, requiring user entries in the userbillinfo table.
