security Archive

Censorship as a Service

If you have not been hiding under a rock for the past few days you probably know that the Great Firewall of China was breached and about 500GB of data had been leaked. But that is not the fun part. The actual fun part was that the leak revealed that the technology behind GFW was

The biggest internet tumors

After the omnipresent cookie notice, the next internet tumor is the Cloudflare captcha or Turnstile or whatever it is called. It does not stop scraping, but it does block three times in a row legitimate browsing and the automatic check fails to validate in 9 out of 10 cases.

Node is pure garbage

I have always considered Node to be pure garbage, for its dependencies, for the fact that for specific software versions you need specific Node versions etc. But there is more to it than meets the eye. Node’s supply chain is insecure and prone to attacks. A bunch of very widely used web building blocks (npm

[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