At approximately 10:15am November 3rd one of the Crucial web servers came under a massive coordinated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack). The attack came in three massive bursts which were effective in denying httpd service to clients of that host for very brief periods of less than 30 minutes each.
The attack came in a three separate, independent bursts which are illustrated below.
As a web designer or developer, it is important to know how to use the htaccess file to your advantage. It is a very powerful tool, and can even work as a deterrent for bandwidth thieves, exploits, and hackers. Below are some common examples of rules to consider when developing websites. We hope you find them useful.
This whitepaper is a continuation to the previously article, Nagios Howto: Notification Escalations, EventHandlers & Remote Service Monitoring With NRPE.
From the Nagios website, "Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program," however, this description is not as accurate as it could be. In it’s most basic state of configuration, Nagios is a fantastic tool for locally monitoring network devices and services.
If you’ve ever moved anything into chroot before, then you probably feel confident that you could get Rails done in a couple of minutes. I thought I could, and I was wrong! However, after much head scratching, Googling, and pouring over the same log files about a thousand times, I have succeeded. The good news is that if you know the steps then you can make it all work in just a few minutes after all. (more…)
