How to Keep Your VPS Safe From Hackers in Less Than 10 Minutes
You're busy. We get that. So let's see how you can improve your VPS security if you've only got 10 minutes to spend.
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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked
Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly". But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade". In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk. Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster.
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Get Ready to Scan Your Passport If You Want to Buy a VM This Summer
New requirements are coming for providers to Know Your Customer (KYC). Is just verifying the email address and taking a credit card enough or do they need to get into those "what was your street address four years ago" kinds of questions? Will we have to scan passports and send copies of utility bills?
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My Server Was Getting Constantly Hacked Until I Changed This One Parameter
If your server (VPS or dedicated) has been hacked, there is a simple parameter change you an make that will vastly improve its security. It takes a couple steps to login, but it will protect you against brute force attacks, keyloggers, and other attacks. And you have a couple of options.
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No, 'airforce' is Not a Good Password: Check Out This Honeypot
LowEndTalk user htop setup a honeypot to trap ssh passwords. Watch skiddies in real time!
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Motherboard MSI Warns of Rogue Firmware
MSI recently suffered a cyber attack and has issued a warning about dodgy imposter firmware that might be in the wild.
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RackNerd and Ezeelogin: Securing and Scaling SSH
Ezeelogin is an SSH management platform that provides two factor authentication, SAML Authentication, session recording, IAM, RBAC, PAM, and lots of other important acronyms. Community provider RackNerd recently deployed it and explains the product's benefits to providers and users.
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Here Come the RackSpace Lawsuits
"That Rackspace offered opaque updates for days, then admitted to a ransomware event without further customer assistance is outrageous," according to one attorney. Class-action lawsuits against Rackspace are popping up around the country.
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Just Stop Using LastPass: They've Been Hacked for the 9th Time
LastPass had security incidents in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017 (twice), 2019, 2021, and twice now in 2022. Are you still using them? Why?
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WHMCS Won't Tell You About What The Vulnerability Is, But Will Say "Patch ASAP!"
There's an important security vulnerability in WHMCS 8.5.x and 8.6.x. WHMCS won't tell you what it is, but will tell you that you need to patch ASAP. No earlier versions are affected.
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Getting Scans From 18.171.7.246 and 35.177.10.231? It's the UK Government
If you're seeing weird things in your logs, it's because the UK National Cyber Security Center has decided to scan all UK systems as part of their "Scanning the Internet for Fun and Profit" (their term). Click to learn how to opt-out.
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Internap Loses Customer Data, Shrugs, Doesn't Apologize
"We lost your data. It's your problem. OKTHXBYE - Internap."
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BRING YOUR OWN JOKE: Uber Has Many Openings in IT Security
As of this morning, Uber has the following positions open: Senior Security Engineer - Application Security Security Engineer - Penetration Testing Security Engineer II Security Incident Commander II T...
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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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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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More Vulnerabilities, Poorer Patches: TrendMicro Is Bummed
Presenting at the Black Hat USA conference this week, Trend Micro had an interesting comment: Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a disturbing trend – a decrease in patch quality and a reduction in...
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Those Spam Texts Are Coming From Twilio: They've Been Hacked
Twilio has suffered a data breach and the attackers "used the stolen credentials to gain access to some of our internal systems". Twilio is a messaging platform with a nice API. I used it last year t...
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Why It May Be Illegal to Pay Ransomeware and Why a Ban on Payments Won't Work
If your organization's data is being held for ransom by hackers, should you pay up? The universal consensus is that you shouldn't because it encourages criminals. But an earlier question needs to be...
Read MoreYour 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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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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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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Low End Detectives: IP Address of Low End Talk Phishing Attacker Revealed In Just 5 Minutes!
The Phishing Attack On April 9, 2022, some not-so-nice ungentleman went phishing. As announced on Low End Talk, phishing emails were received by several Low End Talk members. The phishing emails false...
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You Need to Update Chrome ASAP
Word is out of a new vulnerability in Chrome, and it sounds serious. If your browser has an update, you should definitely restart to apply to reach version 99.0.4844.84. New updates are out for Wind...
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Okta Hacked, Stock in Flames
Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA), which provides digital identity authentication services to big companies, confirmed Tuesday that it had suffered a security breach. Their stock plunged nearly 9% as reports piled...
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FREE Root Shells on Linux Servers Thanks to polkitd Vulnerability
A new vulnerability that affects many Linux systems has been revealed: Pwnkit. This attack uses a vulnerability in polkitd to allow any user to escalate his privileges to root. There are patches for...
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HostSolutions.ro Hack Update
As a quick followup to our story from a couple days ago about the HostSolutions.ro hack, owner Marius has now commented on LowEndTalk, confirming the breach and adding some details. The entire thread...
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HostSolutions.ro Hacked
News broke on Christmas Eve that HostSolutions.ro has been hacked. Community member @MikaelStrang posted the email below that he received from a hacker claiming to have the HostSolutions WHMCS databa...
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