In the past, securing SSH on the public internet has been pretty much as easy as (a) keep your OS patched, (b) don’t let root log in with a password, and (c) run fail2ban to stop brute-force attacks. Unfortunately, it looks like the bad guys have finally figured out how to put their bots to… Read More: Ongoing large-scale distributed SSH brute-force attack »
Someone forwarded me a chain letter today about how offensive it is that a blatantly antisemitic web site, JewWatch, shows up at or near the top of the search results when you Google the word “Jew”. Here’s my response: http://blog.kamens.us/jew-is-not-a-bad-word/.
The last time I looked, there were no options I was happy with for backing up my Linux PC in the cloud for a reasonable price. That may have changed, and perhaps if I were less stubborn I’d pay CrashPlan a few bucks per month to back up my system, but I feel compelled to… Read More: Free Linux cloud backups for cheap bastards »
On the afternoon of September 15, I started getting some strange email messages from cron on my Linux server, which hosts my email, blog, DNS, and several web sites for various non-profit organizations I’m involved with. (Background: One of the web sites, an old Drupal installation, handles scheduled tasks through a cron job that periodically… Read More: Post-mortem of security breach on my Linux server »
This time, my email identity thief created an account using my email address at support.mozilla.com. I received email from the site in French asking me to confirm my email address. I’ve reset the password on the account to prevent him from using it, but I can’t log into the account to see what profile information… Read More: Email identity thief strikes again »
I wrote several days ago about spam I received from Nation of Change at an email address which had previously only been shared with Brave New Foundation. Earlier today, I wrote about Nation of Change apparently attempting to cover their tracks after their unauthorized use of email addresses was discovered and reported by me. I… Read More: IMPORTANT UPDATE on Brave New Foundation and Nation of Change »
I wrote recently about spam I received from a new, shady-seeming progressive organization called Nation of Change, sent to an email address that I had only ever used to subscribe to another organization’s mailing list. I asked a lot of questions about Nation of Change, and thus far they’ve failed to respond to any of… Read More: Nation of Change trying to cover their tracks? »
In September 2009, I registered as a developer at sun.com. When doing so, I used a tagged email address, i.e., an email address part of which was unique to my registration at that site. I’ve never used that particular email address anywhere else or published it anywhere. In January 2010, Oracle completed its acquisition of… Read More: Oracle (née Sun) joins the club of companies who can’t… »
Those of you who have been reading the ongoing saga of my dissatisfaction with Citizens Bank will no doubt be pleased to hear that it is nearly at an end. Last week, my wife and I transferred our home equity line to Century Bank and opened a checking account there, and we applied for a… Read More: More Citizens Bank shenanigans »
As I previously reported, somebody has been interacting with Web sites using my email address. I suspect that in addition to the ones I know about, this individual is probably also doing things that I don’t know about, because I assume that not all the web sites at which he’s using my address are kind enough… Read More: Mysterious identity thief uses my email address to create Skype… »