Recently one of the websites I host has come under a few reasonably sized DDoS attacks. The attacker has been (mis)using a WordPress feature, pingback verfications. The attacker sends requests to WordPress sites that have this feature enabled, the WordPress sites then send a HTTP request to the target site to verify the pingback. If […]
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Debian TARPIT iptables How To
After recently upgrading some of my servers to Debian Wheezy, I noticed the xtables-addons-dkms package is now available. This means you no longer have to build the iptables modules from source to get tarpit support (and more). If you are not sure what the tarpit target is or why you would want to use it, […]