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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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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
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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Monitor sites for exploits
We dislike dealing with exploited websites. A common cause is "the long forgotten outdated install from a web developer who left years ago. hoping works forever". Public facing services need to be kept updated in order to remain secure, so … Continue reading
Keeping WordPress secure
According to Wikipedia, "WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites." It's also the most commonly installed blogging system on our customers' servers, and we use it to run the … Continue reading
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Tagged cloudflare, Security, upgrade, wordfence, wordpress
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deghost ridding the world of the ghost vulnerability one host at a time
As part of our mission to wipe the 'ghost' vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235) from our customers servers we have created 'deghost'. Deghost is a cross-distro script to determine the vulnerability of a libc library on a server and then patch that where … Continue reading
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SSLv3 and securing against Poodle
If you are using SSL in your web server, you probably want to read this. Google recently published details about an attack that targets SSLv3. The exploit first allows attackers to initiate a “downgrade dance” that tells the client that … Continue reading