Security

I was reading Slashdot this morning and ran across a link to a story about the Internet instability last week caused by minor bugs in two routers that propagated across the planet in something like 30 seconds. While the story itself is interesting (a good read if you’re into how […]

The Internet needs no bailout

 in Open Source / Politics / Security / Software Development  tagged bailout / internet instability / open protocols / Open Source / proprietary solutions / renesys / routers / software implementation
If you’re like me and log into work from home, you should probably be using the AllowUsers option in your sshd_config at work.  This option allows you to specify IP addresses that are allowed to login to your system.  So, for example, I might have an entry like this: myUserid@192.168.1.* […]

Cutting down sshd logs

 in Fedora / Linux / Security  tagged ddos attacks / dictionary searches / Fedora / Linux / logwatch / open ssh / script kiddies / ssh port / ssmtp / tcp wrappers