Change the default port, disable SSH access for root, disable password access entirely (login with public keys), install fcheck to monitor changed files and hence intrusions.
If you have the luxury, remove SSH access entirely from your web server and block everything but ports 80 and 443, and enter via another server behind the same firewall.
As a nOOb, I gained quite a lot from following this Hardening Linux Web Servers guide: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/hardening_linux
(Please refrain from passing judgement on this, or calling me an idiot)
I once dated this girl in another country. She had a boyfriend. I knew about that, but I didn't know him, so played some moral arithmetic to cancel everything out.
One day he knocked on my door, having travelled from yet another country to come and find me. And he wasn't a happy camper.
The moment I saw his face I knew what had happened. She'd left her email account open. My emails came from a domain registered by me. My home address was in the registration.
Not smart at all. But hell can I empathise with this story. People on the Internet are real. Heck, I'm real, and a punch still hurts no matter what the techno-background of the story.
Definitely a rant, or at least not researched journalism in the least: "on the streets of Shanghai, Bangkok and Singapore for a dollar a pop". You'd have just as much luck buying a pirated copy of Windows in Soho than in Singapore. I have no idea whether you can get pirated software in Soho, but it sounds cool and exotic to me on this balmy Singapore night.
You'd be talking about at least five dollars a pop in Bangkok. Ah but everybody there's too busy working in the rice fields to bother with computers, my bad.
Ultra-low prices is a nice idea, but brings it's own problems. Official CDs featuring Thai artists in Thailand cost about $4, I guess in order to compete with rampant piracy. That's great when an album comes out, but the companies can't afford to maintain a decent back-catalogue. Even the biggest albums are next to impossible to find two or three years down the track. [anybody have a copy of Tai Tanawut's first album for sale, please message me]
Being a Gentoo user, both at home and work (nice job I've got), I'm pretty rapt with Linux. For quick installations I try binary distrubutions, such as SUSE and Ubuntu. They're sweet, until that awful point that something doesn't work. Then you're completely in the shit. I can usually fix an issue using my intermediate experience, but to hell, I'd hate to imagine a non-tech-savvy user trying to solve the problems. And for this reason I've yet to convert somebody to Linux. (right, I'm not a willing SSH in to fix a friend's problem, just as I'm not keen on fixing Windows issues. Besides that, who the heck can be SSHd into when on ADSL?
I have a slightly different take on "technological problems with the cell site's hardware". The problem is that several hundred mobile phones are moving rapidly from the exact same cell to the next exact same cell, overburdening the cell networking negotiation. At least that's what The Economist stated as the real reason to ban calls during flight [I can't find a reference to the article].
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Change the default port, disable SSH access for root, disable password access entirely (login with public keys), install fcheck to monitor changed files and hence intrusions. If you have the luxury, remove SSH access entirely from your web server and block everything but ports 80 and 443, and enter via another server behind the same firewall. As a nOOb, I gained quite a lot from following this Hardening Linux Web Servers guide: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/hardening_linux
Bueller Bueller...
As a thirty someting non-American, I still have difficulty getting through the quiz. Thank Larry for Alt-X
That's the Call of Kubuntu?
MTV ran a broader campaign in the same vein. It consisted of fake adverts and two gotcha web sites: http://www.hospitality-job.com/ http://www.go-with-english.com/
(Please refrain from passing judgement on this, or calling me an idiot) I once dated this girl in another country. She had a boyfriend. I knew about that, but I didn't know him, so played some moral arithmetic to cancel everything out. One day he knocked on my door, having travelled from yet another country to come and find me. And he wasn't a happy camper. The moment I saw his face I knew what had happened. She'd left her email account open. My emails came from a domain registered by me. My home address was in the registration. Not smart at all. But hell can I empathise with this story. People on the Internet are real. Heck, I'm real, and a punch still hurts no matter what the techno-background of the story.
Definitely a rant, or at least not researched journalism in the least: "on the streets of Shanghai, Bangkok and Singapore for a dollar a pop". You'd have just as much luck buying a pirated copy of Windows in Soho than in Singapore. I have no idea whether you can get pirated software in Soho, but it sounds cool and exotic to me on this balmy Singapore night. You'd be talking about at least five dollars a pop in Bangkok. Ah but everybody there's too busy working in the rice fields to bother with computers, my bad.
Ultra-low prices is a nice idea, but brings it's own problems. Official CDs featuring Thai artists in Thailand cost about $4, I guess in order to compete with rampant piracy. That's great when an album comes out, but the companies can't afford to maintain a decent back-catalogue. Even the biggest albums are next to impossible to find two or three years down the track. [anybody have a copy of Tai Tanawut's first album for sale, please message me]
Being a Gentoo user, both at home and work (nice job I've got), I'm pretty rapt with Linux. For quick installations I try binary distrubutions, such as SUSE and Ubuntu. They're sweet, until that awful point that something doesn't work. Then you're completely in the shit. I can usually fix an issue using my intermediate experience, but to hell, I'd hate to imagine a non-tech-savvy user trying to solve the problems. And for this reason I've yet to convert somebody to Linux. (right, I'm not a willing SSH in to fix a friend's problem, just as I'm not keen on fixing Windows issues. Besides that, who the heck can be SSHd into when on ADSL?
I have a slightly different take on "technological problems with the cell site's hardware". The problem is that several hundred mobile phones are moving rapidly from the exact same cell to the next exact same cell, overburdening the cell networking negotiation. At least that's what The Economist stated as the real reason to ban calls during flight [I can't find a reference to the article].