Scott Mcintyre

Last Sunday I had a new customer sign up to our Linux Server Management company and one of the issues they were receiving was bandwidth overages for continual outbound DoS attacks their system was performing but they were unable to track. So in effort to find the initial cause of this with no real data [...]

Tags: apache status, bandwidth graph, bandwidth network monitor, cacti, cacti graphs, cacti monitoring, mrtg graphs, outbound dos, outbound firewall, php ddos, php dos, posix acl, server management, traffic graph, udp.pl

Basic Use of Passwords After all these years you would think basic password security would be drilled into everyone who uses the Internet, yet time and time again I always come across people who still have not learned the basics.  Really what is so hard about remembering a password that is not text only?  One [...]

Tags: /etc/shadow, cracker password, john the ripper, linux password testing, password crack, password decrypt, password multiple sites, password security, password testing, secure password, secure passwords, weak passwords

As reported on zone-h, Some big music corporation sites have been defaced both sonymusicstudios.co.uk and warnermusic.com.tw. Could this be a result of ThePirateBay going down recently? Could it be a coincidence, I think not.  It makes me wonder what will happen in the next few weeks because I suspect there will be a waive of [...]

Tags: sony, sony hacked, sony music defaced, sony music hacked, thepiratebay, warnermusic defaced, warnermusic hacked