I run several web servers, some dedicated to clients, some dedicated to specific projects I have running, and one for the affiliate projects I run. I also have one dedicated to running my mail server. The latter two have been suffering from numerous malicious attacks. The email server was hacked a couple of months ago …
Category Archive: Linux
Sep
06
Suffering Spam Problems
Over the last couple of months I have been struggling to deal with an increased level of SPAM. I run my own mail server (Debian, Postfix, Courier, ClamAV, SpamAssasin). About 2 months ago my server was hacked, at that time all I could find in terms of malicious damage was that the root password had …
Aug
27
Sheevaplug With Ubuntu And Dansguardian Update
In my last post I talked about how I setup ClamAV, Squid proxy and Dansguardian on a SheevaPlug. Overall this has been a great success. I have been testing it on my machines before I role it out onto the rest of the network. I have encountered one problem. When I go to sites such …
Aug
24
Installing Clamav, Squid And Dansguardian On Ubuntu On The Sheevaplug
I took delivery of my Sheeva Plug Sata Multi today. I bought it yesterday online and it came first thing this morning. Indeed I made a mistake on the order when I bought it with an EU plug so I emailed and then called NewIT who were very helpful and changed over the order without …
Aug
12
Network Content Filtering
Eva is rapidly growing up (2 years and 4 months) and it will not be long before she is surfing the web. She already asks for websites to be brought up, she loves the night garden website and asks ‘press the night garden button’ every time I am sat with the laptop. Although I like …
Jul
31
Mysql Update Turns On Binary Logging
I recently ran an apt-get update on my Debian Etch server as I wanted to install pSpell for php. I found that the apt repros were out of date. After and Internet search I found that they have been archived. This is worrying that the OS that I am running is now seemingly obsolete but …
Jul
08
Capital W Capital P
I have blogged before about WordPress 3.0 and all the new features packed into it. One that slipped past my overview and indeed slipped past almost all who have talked so much about this new version of wordpress is a nasty little bit of code hidden away and apparently surreptitiously included by the original developer …
Jul
01
Cloudberry Online Backup – Amazon S3
Following my recent post about media and backup, Andy from Cloudberry contacted me about his companies product asking me to try it out. It has been some time since I got the software, but last night I finally got the time to give it a try. If you remember I was discussing the media that …
Jun
14
Amazon S3 Sync App For Windows
As you will have recently ready I am backing up all my media to Amazon S3. My photographs are stored on my Western Digital MyBook World which I have hacked to open up the Linux shell, and as such i use S3Sync on command line to back up my photographs. I have even written a …
Jun
07
Linux And Open Source Is Inherently Insecure
The title of this blog post will be a scandal in many people’s eyes; however, I will justify what I mean later in this post. In the technical circles there are many that continually bash the big commercial software companies, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and so on for producing software that contains bugs and security flaws …
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