Category: wordpress

About efficacy of the fail2ban daemon:

As many of you know we have been using various countermeasures to stop unwanted individuals  from getting into our servers.  Especially the kind that attempt to brute-force a username/password combination. To that end we have recently deployed the ‘wp fail2ban’ plugin . The question is does it work? The answer is below: ——————— fail2ban-messages Begin …

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Updated Xen Hypervisor, Linux kernel and more

Vandrad Research Labs have carried out major work last night. Between 21:30 and 22:30 on 14 August 2013 AEST, the main server was upgraded and the following work was done: the Xen server was upgraded to Debian 7.0 new version of Xen Hypervisor (Xen 4.1.4) was installed a new Linux kernel (3.2.46) and modules was …

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