Posts in the Category: Blog

Softinite.com under attack Part II

By Posted in - Blog on May 18th, 2016 0 Comments

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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Softinite website under attack

By Posted in - Blog on May 5th, 2016 0 Comments

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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Security vs Innovation

By Posted in - Blog on April 29th, 2016 0 Comments

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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