While working as a sysadmin over the years, you truly start to understand the importance of security patches. On a semi-daily basis I see compromised servers that have landed in an unfortunate situation due to lack of security patching or insecure program execution (e.g. running a program as root unnecessarily). In this blog post I’ll […]

SSH is a common system administration utility for Linux servers.  Whether you’re running CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, or anything in between; if you’ve logged into a Linux server before, you likely have at least heard of it. The acronym SSH stands for “Secure Socket Shell”, and as the name implies, the protocol is built with security […]

Why is a firewall so important? Security on an open Internet becomes more important with each day. Along with the growth of Internet and Internet literacy, the benefits of a dedicated/virtual server can now be felt around the world. For many, personal data and web service accessibility has become an integral part of the daily […]

Privacy and security can be difficult to achieve, especially for your entire organization. It involves many factors and can be difficult to manage from the top. While you may not want to, or don’t have the ability to manage every aspect of your organization’s members there are some things you can do. One of the […]

There is a lot of noise these days about this soon-to-be implemented EU regulation, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), making the topic hard to miss — but how much do you understand about GDPR, and to what extent can it can impact your U.S.-based business? What is this GDPR thing, and why should you […]

Over the past few weeks, a new DDoS attack vector through the use of memcached has become prevalent. Memcached is an object caching system with the original intent of speeding up dynamic LiveJournal websites back in 2003. It does this by caching data in RAM instead of calling data from a hard drive, thus reducing […]

If the data you store on your server or other service is important to you, likely you’d prefer it not ending up in the hands of others. If so you should use the power of cryptography. There are many options to choose from whether you’re running Windows, Linux or BSD but we’ll be focusing on […]

What is the value of a server? In this world of virtual machines and dedicated servers, our customers are becoming more and more removed from the physical components that comprise a server. Everything is easily replaceable — everything except the data contained within the servers. Countless work hours have gone into making each server unique, […]

Three banks plundered with DDoS distraction. Criminals have recently hijacked the wire payment switch at several US banks to steal millions from accounts, a security analyst says. Gartner vice president Avivah Litan said at least three banks were struck in the past few months using “low-powered” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks meant to divert the attention […]

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, the group behind three phases of distributed-denial-of-service attacks against banks since last September, now says more attacks against U.S. banks are on the way. The group made its announcement in a July 23 posting on the open forum Pastebin. al-Qassam Cyber Fighters hasn’t attacked since the first week of May, […]