Big thanks to cloudflare for this. They are slowly switching all plans, including the free plan, to https by giving away free SSL certificates. I am now on Full SSL. That means connections between my website and visitors, and between cloudflare and my webhost are fully encrypted. This is wonderful news because it means over […]
Continue readingWordPress websites under attack…again
Last year, it was the wp-login.php brute force attack where bots kept trying to log on to websites by guessing the user name and password. A basic step in protecting a WordPress website is not to have a user called ‘admin’. For the last two weeks, there has been a wave of new attacks. The […]
Continue readingSystem Administrator Appreciation Day
It’s on the 25th of July this year which is today and there is even a website for it. A day to appreciate the people who keep our websites, databases, applications and internet connections running. But…umm…this doesn’t look quite right.
Continue readingScheduling virus scans on Arch Linux
Virus threats under Linux are mostly negligible. But I might still want to keep my system free from virus infected downloads and such. There is no need for on-access scanning and a weekly disk scan should do. Under Arch Linux, I have clamav installed with freshclam service enabled so it auto updates the virus signatures. […]
Continue readingBerlin, the first city with its own TLD
The top-level domain .BERLIN publicly was made available for domain registration earlier this week. This makes Berlin the first city in the world to have its own top-level domain. Until now, most German businesses and organizations used Germany’s .DE TLD but it is now possible for local companies and Berlin residents to register an internet […]
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