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Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

In a textbook example of good customer service and proper crisis management (even though this is no crisis), MXroute founder and former LowEndTalk administrator @jar disclosed the following: Github's documentation is unclear, but based on a message just received in my account's security log, it is possible that my Github password was compromised. There' some reason to think this may be a GitHub issue rather than a anythin...

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Abundance of Caution: If You are a MXroute Customer, Take Action

CloudFlare Needs to Turn on Attack Mode

CloudFlare (NASDAQ: NET) is under social assault from people upset about KiwiFarms' usage of the platform. For those who have lives, here's the brief on KiwiFarms from Wikipedia: Kiwi Farms...is an Am...

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CloudFlare Needs to Turn on Attack Mode

Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

We'd like to welcome Warren.io, a company offering an interesting product in the cloud platform space. In a nutshell (see the one pager), they offer a way for smaller players to compete with big publi...

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Warren.io: Providing Cloud Platform Power Suits to Small Providers!

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...

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This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

It's true - I'm a Porkbun fan.  Nicest interface I've found and they have either great or at least reasonable pricing.  They're one of the more popular registrars in our community. --raindog308 Hello!...

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More On Installing And Configuring Certbun For Use With Apache

LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Sometimes you see stuff in the media and wonder if it's really news.  Some celebrity broke up with some other celebrity.  Some tech company released version X.Y which is .0001% better.  LastPass was h...

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LastPass Releases Its Security Incident for 2022

Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

Afghanistan launched a crackdown on crypto exchanges, closing at least sixteen such exchanges in the last week. According to Sayed Shan Sa'adat, an Afghanistani security official: "[Afghanistan's cent...

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Afghanistan Shutters Domestic Crypto Exchanges

MailChimp Security Breach. Yes, Again.

MailChimp revealed they've had a security breach: "In response to a recent attack targeting Mailchimp’s crypto-related users, we’ve taken proactive measures to temporarily suspend account access for a...

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MailChimp Security Breach.  Yes, Again.

Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt! Special Recurring Deal!

We've talked about Internxt before.  We interviewed their founder/CEO and shared a previous offer from them back in May. Now they've returned and want to share a RECURRING HALF OFF deal!  Yes, really!...

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Cut Your Cloud Storage Bill by 75% with Internxt!  Special Recurring Deal!

The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Today we continue our interview series with LowEndTalk member @m4nu, proprietor of PikaPods.  What are PikaPods, you ask?  A very cool service where you pick apps to host and they do all the work.  It...

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The PikaPods Interview: Super Easy Hosted Apps From People Who Care About Privacy...Plus a Darn Cute Mascot!

Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Well known Low End regular GTHost recently asked Low End Box for a review, and we are happy to oblige. As reported below, we successfully installed multiple servers in multiple locations with great re...

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Review of GTHost servers -- 15 minute setup at 17 locations!

Amazon Broke the Internet Today. Good Sales Tactic?

Amazon's Ohio datacenter experienced a significant outage today.  Amazon reported that "some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of p...

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Amazon Broke the Internet Today.  Good Sales Tactic?

Three New Virtono Locations With 25% Lifetime Discount - Interview With Daniel Draga, VP

Wow! Virtono has been on Low End Talk since 2014! They have a lot of Low End experience! And, they'...

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Three New Virtono Locations With 25% Lifetime Discount - Interview With Daniel Draga, VP

Your Wordpress Has Been Scanned. Hope You Weren't Hacked.

Wordfence reports that hackers are widely attempting to exploit a vulnerability that they reported over three months ago.  According to The Register: Wordfence disclosed the flaw almost three months a...

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Your Wordpress Has Been Scanned.  Hope You Weren't Hacked.

ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io! Only $5 Lifetime!

LowEndTalk member @Chuck alerted the community to a terrific deal: you can get a full access lifetime membership for Shodan.io for only $5 - that's 90% off the list price! However the deal expires at...

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ALMOST GONE: Save 90% on Shodan.io!  Only $5 Lifetime!

Become a Certified Datacenter Associate Online...for FREE!

I sometimes peek at HostingJournalist and I saw this article come across the feed. More than 650,000 users of data centers have taken more than one million courses from Schneider Electric University,...

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Become a Certified Datacenter Associate Online...for FREE!

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Just recently we were introducing our newer Low Enders to Hacker News ("HN"). Now, suddenly, we have news of a doubled, double disk failure over there at HN. The doubled, double disk failure took HN d...

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An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

"Today Intel released two security advisories addressing 2 medium severity vulnerabilities reported by academic researchers from ETH Zurich who have labeled their side-channel attack as “Retbleed” due...

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Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour

How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers

This post discusses how to resolve a possible Certbot error. Certbot can fail to install a Let's Encrypt certificate when the certificate is requested for a subdomain in situations where a DNS Certifi...

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How To Fix A CertBot CAA Error Blaming Your Nameservers

Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

Today, June 30, PayPal sent me three emails. The first wants me to check the May activity for my company's business account. The second wants me to "take my business online with a PayPal partner." And...

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Bye-Bye PayPal Friends And Family Payments To Business Accounts!

How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

Introduction Hello from sunny Sonora! This morning I was delighted to receive an email from Hetzner telling me that my new AX41-NVMe server was provisioned with Debian and ready to go! This post discu...

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How To Begin On Your New VPS Or Dedicated Server

Interview with Fran Villalba Segarra, CEO of Internxt, the Cloud Storage Company That Takes Privacy Seriously

Today we're excited to share an interview with Fran Villalba Segarra, founder and CEO of Internxt.  We recently shared their one month free trial with you.  If you're looking for cloud storage from a...

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Interview with Fran Villalba Segarra, CEO of Internxt, the Cloud Storage Company That Takes Privacy Seriously

Four Step VPS Webserver: Debian, Apache, Certbot, And Let's Encrypt!

For some reason, I can never remember these certbot commands.  Bookmarked!  --raindog308 Introduction Debian, Apache, Certbot, and Let's Encrypt are frequently used for websites. A problem for beginne...

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Four Step VPS Webserver: Debian, Apache, Certbot, And Let's Encrypt!

Faster, Easier Proxmox Install On A Hetzner Dedicated Server!

Last night, in a moment of sudden Low End Inspiration, I grabbed a Hetzner Auction Server! It's been awhile since I had a server at Hetzner. I wanted something for a few new projects. I haven't decide...

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Faster, Easier Proxmox Install On A Hetzner Dedicated Server!

Change Geolocation Without A VPN! Debian VPS + Tinyproxy + SwitchyOmega On A Chromebook!

Life Is Good In Mexico! Everything about visiting Mexico has been wonderful! The people here are very kind, very friendly, and completely welcoming. The food is great, and life is peaceful. I have onl...

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Change Geolocation Without A VPN! Debian VPS + Tinyproxy + SwitchyOmega On A Chromebook!

Welcome Summer with Hostigger's New Sale! Budget and Premium Lines, Starting at $39/Year for a 2GB VPS in Kansas City or Istanbul!

Welcome, summer! That's the name of Hostiger 's new sale, which offers some pretty nice pricing with two different product lines: If you want a cheap VPS with basic features, check out their VMware li...

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Welcome Summer with Hostigger's New Sale!  Budget and Premium Lines, Starting at $39/Year for a 2GB VPS in Kansas City or Istanbul!

Lotus 1-2-3 Resurrected! -- Runs Natively On Linux After Hack By Tavis Ormandy!

  Lotus 1-2-3 And The 1990s Tavis Ormandy is a world class white hat hacker who works at Google Project Zero. Hacker News ("HN") is a news aggregator and comment board run by the well known start...

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Lotus 1-2-3 Resurrected! -- Runs Natively On Linux After Hack By Tavis Ormandy!

Three Quick And Easy Home Made Qemu KVM VPS Recipes! -- Bake Them Yourself On Almost Any Linux Distribution!

Introduction You easily can launch your own additional KVM VPSes on your own existing Linux machine! Do you want to try a different Linux distribution? Or try a different setup of your favorite distri...

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Three Quick And Easy Home Made Qemu KVM VPS Recipes! -- Bake Them Yourself On Almost Any Linux Distribution!
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