Author Archives: Steve

Capita still allowing hacking from their network

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Steve

So several days after reporting to Capita that they had a compromised machine on their network what do I see but the same IP address come back and start doing exactly the same thing. A search on the internet shows … Continue reading →

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So first it was the Chinese, then it was the Brazillians. Now its Capita trying to break into my site.

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Steve

Capita – that company who the UK Government think can be trusted to run so much of our infrastructure can’t apparently stop their own network from being used to attempt to hack servers: 31.222.208.86 – – [03/Dec/2014:01:22:43 +0000] “GET /wp/wp-login.php … Continue reading →

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Bits and bobs

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Steve

Although I should be working on getting all the data loaded into the Canalplan Boats Database I’ve not been making a lot of progress on getting the new data and the old data mapped into a new structure which I … Continue reading →

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Scribbled notes on fixing bad blocks

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Steve

#smartctl -t short /dev/sdb then #smartctl -a /dev/sdb SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50556 1132724807 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 50556 … Continue reading →

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Todays list of scum

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Steve

2014-10-23 04:39:51,514 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [apache-wplogin] Ban 198.23.155.76 2014-10-23 11:02:05,033 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 111.249.35.151 2014-10-23 12:44:57,061 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [sasl] Ban 63.152.242.19 2014-10-23 12:47:16,215 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 49.230.184.69 2014-10-23 12:49:02,731 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 185.7.100.97 2014-10-23 12:49:41,087 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban tweaks

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Steve

So I tweaked Fail2ban so it picked up failed SASL auth sesssion… There are a LOT of compromised machines out there: 2014-10-21 15:57:08,236 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 222.247.167.96 2014-10-21 22:00:08,119 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 122.165.90.186 2014-10-21 22:00:09,089 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] … Continue reading →

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Once again – the spammers are very very odd.

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Steve

This morning I apparently sent myself some spam. Who in their right mind would ever think that this wasn’t spam when it arrives in their inbox?

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Final Proof that Semalt are rogue scum

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Steve

This site, along with others I run, was swamped by traffic from Semalt in the past .  Today the following article came to my attention which just confirms what I think myself and many other people had realised – that … Continue reading →

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So long EE… and thanks for Nothing

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Steve

I just posted this to EE’s wall on Facebook. I expect they will delete it… they are a company in complete denial. =================== Well its time to say goodbye to EE. I’d like to say I’m sad that I’m leaving … Continue reading →

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Do these people think we are stupid?

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Steve

If you are going to send phishing emails to me then at least use proper English….. totally and utterly pathetic.

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