Archive for month: November, 2009

Admins, please secure your servers

23 November, 2009 (20:26) | Linux | By: chuck

Today I poured over some of my auth.log files as usual, and yet again to my disappointment there were several hosts that had spent around three to four hours hounding my server with login attempts every five seconds. Having a few hours of time to kill I decided to investigate one of the machines.
I managed [...]

End of KDX (And Haxial for that matter)

17 November, 2009 (22:00) | Software | By: chuck

Well, it appears KDX is finally dead. Haxial software pulled the plug on themselves. From their homepage:
Unfortunately, the Haxial Software company is unable to continue operation, and has suspended itself.
The software is no longer being distributed or sold, and technical support is no longer provided.
Tis a sad day. For anyone who doesn’t know already, KDX [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 – A step in the right direction

17 November, 2009 (17:43) | Linux | By: chuck

Around the end of October, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) announced the new release of Ubuntu, specifically version 9.10. A little after it was released I installed in on my laptop, and so far I’m pretty impressed. I haven’t tested it extensively, but I do use it enough on a day-to-day basis that I would [...]