Nov
05
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently moved all my web hosting to a new provider following a devastating hack of one of my dedicated servers which was hosted with Ultrahosting. I had a bad experience with Ultrahosting support and will not be using them again in the future. I have …
Sep
22
In another post following on from the recent server hacks that I have suffered. I have been researching server security. SSH security is something that I have always been fairly strong on, but I wanted to check I was doing everything possible. Here is a list of things that you should do to improve the …
Jan
13
Following the disaster that I has with the web/mail servers I have taken an additional step to secure the servers as I am still not clear what the causes of the failure were. I have disabled direct root ssh login (which in debian is allowed by default) so you have to login as a non-privileged …
