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How to Update Intel Microcode on Debian 11 Bullseye

Not long ago I noticed this message when booting one of my home systems: "TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata; please update microcode to version: 0x22 (or later)" I wasn't having any issues with the system, but this sounded like something I should correct.  But doing a microcode upgrade sounded risky - couldn't brick my CPU?  And while an apt-cache search quickly found a package called intel-microcode, it was listed as n...

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How to Update Intel Microcode on Debian 11 Bullseye

The Syniverse Hack: Why Using SMS for 2FA is a Bad Idea

Security gurus have suggested for years that relying on SMS for two-factor authentication is a bad idea.   Reasons include Your phone may be stolen Many people allow SMS messages to be displayed on lo...

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The Syniverse Hack: Why Using SMS for 2FA is a Bad Idea

Privacy, Canaries, Crypto, and Backpacking: Interview with Curtis of IncogNET!

Our interview series has featured a wide opinions and views.  Today's interview is no exception - and it's a real treat to read!  Curtis from IncogNET joins us to discuss privacy, free speech hosting,...

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Privacy, Canaries, Crypto, and Backpacking: Interview with Curtis of IncogNET!

Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters

Galera is MariaDB's multi-master replication technology which makes it a snap to setup highly-available multi-node MariaDB clusters.  In this tutorial we'll walk through setting up a cluster and also...

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Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters

Microsoft Says Passwords are Passé

Are passwords a dying breed? In a blog post published September 15, Microsoft Vice President of Security, Compliance, and Identity Vasu Jakkal entitled "The passwordless future is here for your Micros...

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Microsoft Says Passwords are Passé

Hostigger is Now Hostiger and Has Ferociously Cheap VPS Offers for You! (Kansas City or Istanbul)

Hostigger is now Hostiger and they're bringing some awesome offers: Get a 2GB KVM with 40GB of disk and 2TB of traffic for only $4.99/month! Take 30% off if you buy annually! Larger sizes available to...

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Hostigger is Now Hostiger and Has Ferociously Cheap VPS Offers for You! (Kansas City or Istanbul)

Watta Offer from Watta Server! (1GB VPS for $24/Year!)

Watta offer from WattaServer we have for you!  They're new to our community and are kicking things off in true LowEnd style with some cheap VPS offers:: Get a 1GB VM with an ipv4, 10Gbps DDoS protecti...

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Watta Offer from Watta Server!  (1GB VPS for $24/Year!)

Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB Accidentally Left Wide Open

Microsoft revealed Thursday that some customers' CosmosDB databases in Azure were accidentally left wide open. A security researcher named Wiz discovered that it could access keys that unlocked thousa...

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Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB Accidentally Left Wide Open

LowEnd Provider Clouvider Suffers Website Hack

LowEnd provider Clouvider suffered a website hack today. A group styling itself "Katyusha SecurityExploitCrew" defaced a website they manage, as reported on LowEndTalk. The site was a redirect to thei...

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LowEnd Provider Clouvider Suffers Website Hack

CoinBase Customer Service Continues to be Appalling: Thousands Hacked

A while back, I used CoinBase (NASDAQ: COIN) for some cryptocurrency transactions and found their system buggy and the customer service nonexistent. After failing repeatedly to get an account verified...

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CoinBase Customer Service Continues to be Appalling: Thousands Hacked

T-Mobile Leaks Almost 50 Million People's SSNs and Driver's Licenses

T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that a "a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems": "Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/...

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T-Mobile Leaks Almost 50 Million People's SSNs and Driver's Licenses

Report Reveals cPanel/WHM Suffers "Multiple Vulnerabilities"

Security research firm Fortbridge has released a report claiming to have discovered "multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/WHM". The report states: "Our team has found multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/...

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Report Reveals cPanel/WHM Suffers

RackNerd's CEO, Dustin B. Cisneros on the Evolution of the Hosting Landscape, Aggressive Expansion, and Managing 17 Datacenter Locations

RackNerd, a well known provider within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community which was recently voted #1 top provider by the community members, was recently featured on an interview with HostAdvice...

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RackNerd's CEO, Dustin B. Cisneros on the Evolution of the Hosting Landscape, Aggressive Expansion, and Managing 17 Datacenter Locations

Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing.  Under...

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Apple Installs Mandatory Software on Every Apple Device That Allows Engineers to See Your Photos, Approve Your Searches

Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...

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Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

Loss ratios in the cyber insurance world have skyrocketed in recent years - surging 400% year over year.  They have hit 70% of paid premiums, which some industry commentators are saying is unsustainab...

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Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Tarsnap is a cloud backup company that emphasize strong cryptography. It's the brainchild of Dr. Colin Percival, former FreeBSD security officer. Its motto is "online backups for the truly paranoid" a...

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Tarsnap: Cloud Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Custom-Built for Success: Interview with Radic Davydov, CEO of ReliableSite

Our interview series has featured a lot of industry leaders and we continue today by talking with Radic Davydov, CEO of ReliableSite. In this interview, you'll get a fascinating look inside this succe...

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Custom-Built for Success: Interview with Radic Davydov, CEO of ReliableSite

Running Like a Swiss Watch: Interview with Andrew Azarov, CTO of ServerAstra

Our interview series has featured a lot of industry leaders and we continue today by talking with Andrew Azarov, CTO of ServerAstra. In this interview, you'll learn about their focus on security, self...

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Running Like a Swiss Watch: Interview with Andrew Azarov, CTO of ServerAstra

How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to Force and Redirect HTTPS with .htaccess

Hosterlabs Confirms Data Breach

Hosterlabs announced today that on June 21st they "experienced an intrusion" in which unidentified attackers "placed malware on our servers, and by doing so gained access to our customers' data". The...

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Hosterlabs Confirms Data Breach

How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 20.04

This article was contributed by the folks at RackNerd - a provider of shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, DRaaS, colocation, and more. If you are looking for a VPS with f...

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How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 20.04

Save Up to 60% with Hostigger's Summer Sale! (Unlimited Bandwidth VPS w/2GB for only $20/year in Turkey, USA, NL!)

Hostigger is back!  They last brought us an offer on March 11, 2021 and now they've returned with their summer sale.  Get up to 60% off their normal prices with deals like this: VPS with unlimited tra...

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Save Up to 60% with Hostigger's Summer Sale! (Unlimited Bandwidth VPS w/2GB for only $20/year in Turkey, USA, NL!)

Guide to Free Game Server Control Panels

Hosting a game server may not be easy through a terminal, though even experienced cannot handle the game servers through Command Line Interface when hosting a large number of game servers. In this cas...

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Guide to Free Game Server Control Panels

How to Use the Chattr Command in Linux

This article was contributed by Dustin Cisneros at RackNerd, a web hosting and infrastructure as a service provider which was recently voted #1 by the LowEndTalk community! If you are looking for a Li...

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How to Use the Chattr Command in Linux

Community News: RackNerd Moving to New Headquarter Offices in Rancho Cucamonga, California

To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we came across this post shared by Dustin B. Cisneros, CEO of RackNerd on LinkedIn today, and thought it would be some newsworthy content to shar...

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Community News: RackNerd Moving to New Headquarter Offices in Rancho Cucamonga, California

SonicFast returns with crazy €15/year for 1GB VPS Offer!

We last had SonicFast on back in November 26, 2020 and now they've returned with a couple dynamite offers: €15/year will get you a 1GB OpenVZ VPS, or €18/year will get you a 512MB KVM Both offers are...

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SonicFast returns with crazy €15/year for 1GB VPS Offer!

Seven Years in the Making: Interview with Jordan Smith of BillingServ

Our interview series has featured a lot of industry leaders and we continue today by talking with Jordan Smith, founder and director of BillingServ.  He's also known as @Jord on LowEndTalk where he is...

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Seven Years in the Making: Interview with Jordan Smith of BillingServ
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