Using Fail2Ban to secure your Elgg site

Fail2Ban is a simple, but powerful, open source intrusion detection and prevention system which can run on most POSIX compliant operating systems. It works by monitoring various system logs for signs of intrusion attempts (failed logins etc), and on finding them, executes a preconfigured action. Typically, this action is to block further access attempts from […]

Marcus Povey

Fail2Ban is a simple, but powerful, open source intrusion detection and prevention system which can run on most POSIX compliant operating systems. It works by monitoring various system logs for signs of intrusion attempts (failed logins etc), and on finding them, executes a preconfigured action. Typically, this action is to block further access attempts from […]

Here we go again, again…

Yesterday, Evernote, the popular note taking and scrapbook app, was hacked and an unknown number of user credentials were stolen. Evernote carried out a precautionary password reset for all of their users, which, it has been remarked on elsewhere, looked a lot like a phishing scam in its own right. Thankfully, since the last time […]

Marcus Povey

Yesterday, Evernote, the popular note taking and scrapbook app, was hacked and an unknown number of user credentials were stolen. Evernote carried out a precautionary password reset for all of their users, which, it has been remarked on elsewhere, looked a lot like a phishing scam in its own right. Thankfully, since the last time […]