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Technology shorts #1 03/05/2024

Homelab enthusiasts like me debate the worst mistakes they’ve made along their journey so far. Windows users have been a target for ongoing attacks originating from Russian APTs and it seems that the situation is so dire that Microsoft had to issue a warning On the FreeBSD Foundation website you can find a case study

[Script] Block bad referrers in vestaCP

One of the nastiest problems when it comes to webserver resource and bandwidth usage is represented by the bad referrers which associate with a series of artificial queries from various hostnames that spam the crap out of the webserver and statistical logs. Because the accuracy of the statistical traffic reports is highly influenced by such

[Tutorials] Bypass those lame content lockers

I truly hate content lockers that have you do something in order to be able to access a page just so that those providing the stuff you’re accessing can build up email lists to spam the crap out of them or get more likes/shares on social media sites. A large volume of the content provided

[Tutorial] Secure the vestaCP admin panel better

Someone asked on r/Linuxadmin about setting up Let’s Encrypt certificates on the vestaCP admin panel and because I sought a solution for this before and also increased the security of my vestaCP panel by doing additional tweaks I’ve decided to write this article in order to help out all of you that run vestaCP and