July 2, 2012
· fixfreezeleaplinuxsecond
Like a lot of other people some of the servers I run have been affected by the [leap second freeze](http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/leap-second-bug-wreaks-havoc-with-java-linux/). There's an easy (temp) fix to get the system running again without restarting (assuming
November 9, 2011
· linuxsshsecurityiptables
A few months ago I one of the servers I was looking after got compromised. Basically some script kiddie with too much CPU power on his (her) hands succeeded in a brute-force attack logging into the ssh server.
Of course now I'm using much longer, harder to crack passwords...
Bu