Who Watches the Watchmen? Adding a Monit Watchdog After fail2ban Died Quietly for Two Days
Confession time. A while back I discovered that fail2ban had been dead on my server for two…
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🥷 I Spent an Evening Trying to Break Into My Own Blog. It Banned Me. Twice
A few days ago the news served up a delightfully unsettling story: OpenAI admitted that two of…
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Your Graylog Monitoring Script Called — It Wants to Retire
🔍 Sometimes a side project starts with a work problem, not a homelab problem. This one did:…
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Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect
🚨 Nothing quite wakes you up like an iLO email at 20:30 telling you a server just…
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wp2shell, a Fake Chrome, and a Botnet in a Trenchcoat: What My Own Access Logs Told On Me
A few days ago, “wp2shell” made the rounds — an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress, cobbled together…
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