O2 Outage: How to Prevent This in the Future

Back in December, O2, the Telefonica operating company in the United Kingdom, had a massive outage. According to O2, about 25 million subscribers were affected by a small software issue. The company will need to reimburse customers for the outage, which lasted an entire day. An article in The Independent states, O2 announced “Pay monthly customers will be given two free days on their contract. And pay as you go customers will get 10 percent of their credit for free.”

Read the blog post over at SevOne here.

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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

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