IT Security

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

Illustration of a Monit watchdog guarding fail2ban

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

Illustration of a grey-hat hacker testing the author's own blog

🥷 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...

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

Illustration of a wp2shell botnet attack seen in access logs

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...

WP2Shell, an Unpatched Docker Image, and the Night Claude Fixed My Nginx Config Without Being Asked 🐚

Illustration of the wp2shell WordPress exploit

WP2Shell, an Unpatched Docker Image, and the Night Claude Fixed My Nginx Config Without Being Asked 🐚

raphael 20. July 2026

I stumbled across this article — fair warning, it’s in German, apparently the anglophone tech press...

🔒 GitHub Repo Update: Migrating from iptables to nftables — A Packet Filter Deep Dive

Nftables

🔒 GitHub Repo Update: Migrating from iptables to nftables — A Packet Filter Deep Dive

raphael 16. June 2026

Quick repo update: the www_k3s GitHub repo just got a significant firewall overhaul. The old setup used...

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