From b806903837a205aa0712f3b59b84bf48a1530e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: arne Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:01:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix publication date of "I socially engineered myself" --- ...red-myself.md => 2022-04-12-i-socially-engineered-myself.md} | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) rename src/posts/{2022-04-11-i-socially-engineered-myself.md => 2022-04-12-i-socially-engineered-myself.md} (96%) diff --git a/src/posts/2022-04-11-i-socially-engineered-myself.md b/src/posts/2022-04-12-i-socially-engineered-myself.md similarity index 96% rename from src/posts/2022-04-11-i-socially-engineered-myself.md rename to src/posts/2022-04-12-i-socially-engineered-myself.md index 03ecba5..342dd64 100644 --- a/src/posts/2022-04-11-i-socially-engineered-myself.md +++ b/src/posts/2022-04-12-i-socially-engineered-myself.md @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ I am not an expert in server security, I mostly know the basics: Don't use stand ## Stopping servers is easy, too -[fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is another really useful tool: It continuously scans your logs to see suspicious patterns like repeatedly failed login attempts. When it detects such patterns it updates your firewall to ban the IPs these attempts are coming from. When I first looked at fail2ban's activity, I was really not expceting to see that my VPS attracted enough automated login attempts to have a couple of hundred, sometimes a thousand bans triggered each day. None of the services running on it were well known, so it really surprised me and created a sense of a vague threat in the background. +[fail2ban](https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is another really useful tool: It continuously scans your logs to see suspicious patterns like repeatedly failed login attempts. When it detects such patterns it updates your firewall to ban the IPs these attempts are coming from. When I first looked at fail2ban's activity, I was really not expceting to see that my VPS attracted enough automated login attempts to have a couple of hundred, sometimes a thousand bans triggered **per day**. None of the services running on it were well known, so it really surprised me and created a sense of a vague threat in the background. Last weekend this feeling of threat suddenly became very real.