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Category Archives: security
Vouching and password recovery
It seems like many newcommers get stuck at step 4 (vouching) in the signup process. Some are not very used to IRC and does not stick around if they don’t get a response right away when they enter the IRC … Continue reading
Posted in security, services, signup
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Proxy scan
Blinkenshells IRCd now scans all connecting clients for open proxies using BOPM. This is to prevent abuse from users connecting via proxys and thereby evading bans etc. If you’re noticing some strangs messages in your firewall log or similar when … Continue reading
Posted in irc, security
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Linux Local Root Exploit
There was news about a Local Root Exploit for Linux 2.6 on Slashdot yesterday. It’s pretty serious, and it affects most of the recent 2.6 kernels from what I can gather, up to kernel 2.6.24.2 which is patched against this … Continue reading
Posted in downtime, linux, security
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Ident DDoS
You may have noticed that the shell server was a bit slow last night, this is because someone launched a DDoS attack on the server, more specifically the ident daemon. The network was down or very slow between 03-04, but … Continue reading
Posted in attack, internet, security
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Backups!
Blinkenshell now makes daily backups of your files that you store on the server, for more information please read: Info/Backup on the wiki. There are some exceptions of files that won’t get backed up, like temp files (tmp/ in your … Continue reading