Year: 2026

Who Watches the Watchmen? Adding a Monit Watchdog After fail2ban Died Quietly for Two Days

unix_daemon

Who Watches the Watchmen? Adding a Monit Watchdog After fail2ban Died Quietly for Two Days

raphael 28. July 2026

Confession time. A while back I discovered that fail2ban had been dead on my server for two...

🥷 I Spent an Evening Trying to Break Into My Own Blog. It Banned Me. Twice

grayhat_hacker

🥷 I Spent an Evening Trying to Break Into My Own Blog. It Banned Me. Twice

raphael 28. July 2026

A few days ago the news served up a delightfully unsettling story: OpenAI admitted that two of...

Your Graylog Monitoring Script Called — It Wants to Retire

claude_ai

Your Graylog Monitoring Script Called — It Wants to Retire

raphael 26. July 2026

🔍 Sometimes a side project starts with a work problem, not a homelab problem. This one did:...

Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect

nerd-spider

Homelab Rebuild 2026: Wait and See – A Server Crash, a Dead-End Advisory, and My New Prime Suspect

raphael 24. July 2026

🚨 Nothing quite wakes you up like an iLO email at 20:30 telling you a server just...

wp2shell, a Fake Chrome, and a Botnet in a Trenchcoat: What My Own Access Logs Told On Me

wp2shell_hacker

wp2shell, a Fake Chrome, and a Botnet in a Trenchcoat: What My Own Access Logs Told On Me

raphael 23. July 2026

A few days ago, “wp2shell” made the rounds — an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress, cobbled together...

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