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Also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/20/anti_sec_spoof/

From: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-July... 1) Register 'Anti-Sec ' with Free Mail Provider 2) Claims to Full Disclosure 3) ???? 4) PROFIT. brilliant

Not according to the subject of their post: OpenSSH <= 5.2 zero day exploit code

Doh!

I got burned about 10 years ago by 'samba' not doing what I thought I'd told it to. I used the 'bind interfaces only' configuration directive, which I thought would prevent it from…

I'd say the the single most important thing that you've mentioned there is 'logcheck'. If you can remove all of the login spam (by moving ssh to a non-default port for example), th…

"If I have to change it every XX days, I tend to pick very easy to remember passwords, and just change a digit at the end of it every time. As a result of this password "enhancemen…

http://www.rsync.net/resources/faq.html#2

The price comparison sites that don't contain reviews but do manage to come high up in a Google search for 'X reviews'.

This may be a good introduction to BSD (I don't know BSD at all so can't comment on that side much), but it certainly isn't representative of modern Linux kernels and distributions…

I don't mind that, but I do like to make the distinction between the two.

Cracker news on Hacker News.

Related to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648806 (LxLabs boss found hanged after vuln wipes websites) same story on the register and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64878…

Related to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648788 (Hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites) and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646451 (VAServ 'hacked' - all web sites and h…

More information is available in my other post on the subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646451

I can hardly believe what I'm reading here ('ISSUE #24' is the most impressive): http://securityreason.com/wlb_show/WLB-2009060016 "Kloxo (Previously Lxadmin) The most flexible sof…

Hmm... I can't seem to edit the main URL and the status page seems to have moved here: http://www.vaserv.com/ Can anyone edit the URL for me?

Lots more chat here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=867100

Can you say 'oops'? http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6221034&pos...

I was looking for the change-log for 'HyperVM' and found this thread on their own user forum, where some users are requesting a change-log! http://forum.lxlabs.com/index.php?t=msg&…

Why do you need this? Google will accept mail via authenticated and encrypted SMTP so you can use standard tools to send your mail.

If you're looking to configure mail from your slicehost and you do go with the Google Apps option (that's what I use), you might like to have a look at this guide to getting sSMTP …