Author Archives: Steve

A very large but sneakily slow bot-net?

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Steve

Anyone who runs a server is used to it to being attacked by compromised machines which target their SSH services, their web services and their email services. The attack on the email services takes two forms : either trying to … Continue reading →

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Fail2Ban working hard

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Steve

Graph courtesy of Monitorix:

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Bad IPs

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Steve

Its the list of usual suspects – China featuring high in the list of machines trying to break into servers (no surprises there) and OVH : 89.248.174.27 60.173.16.74 161.0.153.110 123.214.172.84 218.27.147.130 120.203.25.58 41.110.189.60 62.99.78.120 155.4.33.255 223.241.247.6 218.5.3.45 46.181.62.158 221.3.236.94 114.251.196.28 … Continue reading →

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More shit from the internet

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Steve

I tightened up the fail2ban rules after looking at my mail logs. The result is impressive but at the same time depressing … so many machines trying to break into my server. Several from GoDaddy…. I guess they’re starting to … Continue reading →

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I guess enom.com are quite happy being associated with spammers

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Steve

Yet more spam… same crap.. from the same people on a new domain: Domain Name: PREVOKEE.COM Registry Domain ID: NA Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2017-03-06T08:18:22.00Z Creation Date: 2017-03-06T16:18:00.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-06T16:18:00.00Z Registrar: ENOM, … Continue reading →

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Another spammer

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Steve

Same usual shit… Domain is brand new too: Domain Name: METICANTS.COM Registry Domain ID: NA Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2017-03-05T05:57:17.00Z Creation Date: 2017-03-05T13:57:00.00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-03-05T13:57:00.00Z Registrar: ENOM, INC. Registrar IANA ID: 48 … Continue reading →

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Trumpistas – Spamming my blog is not the way to increase the popularity of your shite site.

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Steve

Straight to Spam – both of them Australian Hosting company notified of the abuse…  and Blogger have removed the blog..    

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More Stupid Spammers

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Steve

I mean what sort of fuckwit would fall for this. And then I get another modified version of the same shit – with a different unmasked URL.

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A New England Wedding

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Steve

On Saturday we attended the wedding of my wife’s nephew. The wedding was held at Butternut Farm Golf Course near Stow in Massachusetts . But of course we had to get there first. So at 04:45 on Thursday morning we … Continue reading →

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Moving to HTTPS

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Steve

Well I’ve moved the blogs over to https… it was a bit of a pain and I was really starting to bash my head against the wall with Lets Encrypt’s utilities. But then I stopped trying to be clever and … Continue reading →

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