Tag: servers | Michael Rawlins

Heartbleed who do we believe?

published on April 9, 2014 by Mike Categories: Internet #Tagged: Open SSL, Passwords, security, servers

So there has been this huge security hole found in Open SSL which means people could potentially have seen your username and password when you thought it was secure using https. Tom Scott explains the Heartbleed vulnerability very clearly here Now there has been lots & lots written about this, I’m adding to that big […]

WordPress installations under attack

published on February 11, 2014 by Mike Categories: Internet, Social Media #Tagged: Attacks, Brute Force, featured, FTP, Hacking, security, servers, Wordpress

I was checking my syslogs yesterday and I noticed a lot entries that started with the word ALERT and seemed to relate to someone or something trying to force their way in to some of my sites. Entries like: ALERT – tried to register forbidden variable ALERT – ASCII-NUL chars not allowed within request variables […]