Daily Archives: April 10, 2008

ZyXEL 660R Half-Bridge Mode

Posted by on April 10, 2008 6 comments

A common problem with ADSL in the UK is that most connections are still using PPPoA. This means that if you want a computer to have a public IP address on one of these connections, you need to either have a block of IP addresses routed by your ISP to your router (at extra) cost, or you use a USB modem. There’s no real option for those folks that want to connect something like a SonicWall or any other firewall device directly to the line.

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Making your webserver a little bit more secure.

Posted by on April 10, 2008 No comments

The most common attack vector on Linux web servers, is to get something uploaded onto the server that can then be executed. Most of these automated attacks try to put their payload into /tmp, which is universally writable by any user, and then execute it.

But what if they couldn’t execute it?

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