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Drupal Exploits – script to detect versions
We are currently seeing a high volume of Drupal exploits running a lot of arbitrary code, including crypto mining, attacking other servers and similar due to this exploit https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002 If you want to find out if you have any vulnerable … Continue reading
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Tagged detect, drupal, exploits, shell
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Spectre and Meltdown article roundup
Our team is working on the best approach to secure our customers' systems against the recently reported Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Our first step is to understand the problem and its mitigations. This post provides a roundup of discussions and … Continue reading
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Tagged exploit, linux, Security, vps
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Kernel 4.14 LTS released
We have added the latest 4.14 kernel to our list of stable kernels for 64bit VPS servers. The 4.14 kernel includes a large number of performance enhancements, including ... filesystem io block_mq scheduler improvements new selectable scheduler options for disk … Continue reading
Letsencrypt with Zonomi and Rimuhosting name servers using hooks
SSL is good, you should use it everywhere! Letsencrypt it is a project that allows you to obtain signed certificates for free (you should consider donating though) to secure your website. Big efforts have been done to make this accessible to … Continue reading
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Tagged certbot, letsencrypt, Security, SSL
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Virtualmin Changes binding from ip:80 to *:80 and breaks older configs … FIX
We have found some virtualmin installs will change the format of new virtualhosts from ip:80 to *:80 sometimes which breaks virtualhosts as the *:80 overrides the ip:80. This can result in websites showing another website content, and usually shows up … Continue reading
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Reboot-less Xen patching
Recently there have been two sets of Xen vulnerabilities. One being disclosed in September, the other earlier today. Historically we have had to organize host updates which required downtime to reboot VMs. For these last sets of vulnerabilities we have … Continue reading
DKIM and subaddressing added to 25mail.st
We have added a couple of features to the 25mail.st service. First, we now support DKIM email signing. This lets our email servers sign outgoing messages so that recipients can verify that the email was sent from an authorized server. … Continue reading
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Whitelist your own computer in fail2ban
Fail2ban is a great "dynamic" firewall for servers that is installed by default on many of our VPSs, and we can install it on your VPSs at your request. It protects against brute-force attacks, where an attacker is trying to … Continue reading
Using Fail2ban on wordpress wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php
A fair few customer of ours use wordpress and occasionally notice that there are people hammering on a few URLs This can cause high load, slow websites and a number of issues, espoecuially when you have more than a single … Continue reading
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Tagged fail2ban, Security, worpress
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Using Ansible to manage your VPSs – Part Two
In this post I'm going to introduce playbooks, and show you how to customise the /etc/resolv.conf file on each server. I assume you have followed Part One of this series and have created a hosts file and files in ~/myansible/host_vars/. … Continue reading
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