Category: Security
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Back It Up.
Oh man. I use so many different backup programs. But I have a favorite right now…
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Cloudflare. Just do it.
Cloudflare is a front end to your typical web site – it offers a layer of protection to your site by concealing the IP address, by intercepting requests and in general dealing with useless slag of people who like to hack sites. I have no connection to Cloudflare, I am not even a [paying] customer! …
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Hacked Again
My site was hacked again the other day – this is common enough for WordPress sites. If you’re not on top of it you could have it hacked, pretty much automatically. This part I knew. It still got hacked, and I learned a few more things. 1 Back up your site! This could mean a…
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Password Keeper
I’ve been a huge fan of 1Password since the beginning. I bought several versions and upgrades for multiple machines and never regretted it. Something happened with version 7 though, and I haven’t been as happy with the change. What happened was subscriptions. Now, I have a number of software subscriptions, very very few make me…
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More hack attempts
After my last experience, I checked my logs and noticed quite a load of failed attempts on my mail server. It looks like a brute force script kiddie attack, which I’m pretty sure will fail on my machine. Still, I want to kick out these morons. So after some research, I found fail2ban. The installation…
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Hack Attack
Someone mentioned they got a bounce from my domain’s email. I went to take a look at the error and discovered a couple of hosts trying to brute force login to my SMTP server. Some quick config changes to create a blacklist, and a fail2ban install and it has stopped now. Lesson 1: check your…