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2008/03/18
by Marc
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Ever wanted to own a football club?

Yes? Well in that case now you have the possibility to do just that. Myfootball Club Society Limited offers this possibility, the society has acquired 75% of Ebbsfleet United Football Club Limited. Via the website myfootballclub.co.uk you are now able to get a participation in the Myfootball Club Society, vote on important subjects and pick the team for each match. Continue Reading →

2008/01/29
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fail2ban another tool to stop brute force attacks

My colleague Ben at Datacenter Luxembourg has referred to another tool to reduce brute force attacks. The tool is called fail2ban.

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. These rules can be defined by the user. Fail2ban can read multiple log files such as sshd or Apache web server ones.

http://www.fail2ban.org