5h1t h*ppens - understanding incident pyramids in IT

With the latest outage at Standard Bank, every expert is climbing out of the woodwork in self-righteous indignation and saying, “How can this happen?” Somehow, in their minds it shouldn’t. However, if we look at it in a balanced and objective manner, the outage was not that debilitating and was only a couple of hours. The incident at Standard Bank is not something new, it has been happening for ages at different companies and most likely at yours as well.

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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