Tags · sysadmin

• 05-Nov-2023
  Thanks Repo-Lookout! I get a pile of email that is worse than useless, but I just got one that was great! Repo Lookout: Repo Lookout is a large-scale security scanner, with a single purpose: Find source code repositories that have been inadvertently exposed to the public and report them to the domain’s technical contact. The email looked...

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• 22-Feb-2018

  
  Suspicious Activity: “An admin user with the username backup was created outside of WordPress” On 14 February 2018, WordFence alerted me to highly suspicious behavior. This is the format of the email I received from WordFence version 4.9.3: This email was sent from your website “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]” by the Wordfence plugin. Wordfence found the following new issues on “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]”. Alert generated at Wednesday 14th of February...

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• 19-Nov-2008
  The Reluctant Sysadmin This morning I had a compile that was hanging and/or calling itself. This made the server, and more importantly, the “yes people use it” webserver unresponsive. This was not fun. Here are the tools I used to kill the processes: ps -aux | grep -i make | awk '{print $2}' ps -aux | grep -i...

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