Posts in the Category: Blog
By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 18th, 2016
Short time after cleaning up the infection, the attacks renewed, bringing down the website on periodical basis.
After some digging, it looked like some Chinese based IPs were hitting xmlrpc.php on port 80 and brute forcing …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 11th, 2016
Below steps are based on this article.
It is assumed that OpenVPN configuration files will be located under /etc/openvpn .
If you haven’t done it already, then install openvpn ‘opkg update’ followed by ‘opkg install openvpn-openssl’
scp …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 9th, 2016
The setup has been made primarily using the information here.
I. Remove your existing driver
If you have the default driver, then the instructions are:
opkg update
opkg remove kmod-b43
II. Install broadcom-wl driver mentionned here and some …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on May 5th, 2016
Our website appears to have been the victim of an attack.
At first, it was difficult to assess what was happening.
The box on which it has been running kept going down.
It seemed like a problem with the …
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By Serge Softinite
Posted in - Blog on April 29th, 2016
Innovation appears to be fostered by trust.
Security helps enforce trust.
Innovation seems to be constrained by costs.
Security comes at a cost.
It appears that a balance is required when there is enough security to maintain trust, but …
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