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    IoT defense on Home Network

    Disable upnp on router
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    ColoCrossing threatens to sue vpsBoard

    I'm quite surprised academics got the go-ahead to use actual booters and do network attacks over the internet. Back when I was in academia my final year paper/project/dissertation was largely on DDoS methods and detection/mitigation tactics in IaaS environments; but in order to keep in line...
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    Wable Drops boot and kicks bundled customers.

    I'm starting to think they might like the publicity from incidents like this. The price change situation a few years back had a lot of people talking about them. 
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    Afterburst - 6 year celebration sale - 30% discount OpenVZ + KVM

    Afterburst specializes in unmetered VPS solutions, check out our site @ http://afterburst.com/! We've been in business over six years with thousands of extremely happy clients, and yet we try to take a personal approach to VPS hosting :) To celebrate being in business for six years and the...
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    Email Spam Decreases to Less than 50% of all Email

    I wonder if the decrease in spam has anything to do with darkode being shut down - though I suspect its residents will have simply moved elsewhere...
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    Random process name sending DDoS

    XOR.DDoS is a nasty one. We've got bruteforce protection in place and filter outbound attacks. The "Tsunami" attack in particular managed to avoid our existing filters the first time we saw it. Easily enough blocked, but by that point there had been a 900mbps attack for about half an hour...
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    If a client's VPS is suspended, do you still send them an invoice for next month?

    Plus just because abuse has happened doesn't mean it was intentional. I'm sure many customers would be mad if they got terminated the moment their server was compromised, rather than it being suspended and given a chance to say "wasn't me", look into it and solve the problem.
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    How to check OS install: Manual vs Template

    If you ran the installer, its not a template. If you didn't run the installer, its more than likely a template.
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    OpenVZ VPS high load cause

      Sounds like a failing drive. Run a smart long test on all of your drives. It's common for a VPS or few which has some data on a bad sector to have insane load before the drive dies.  The other VPS's might not have a very high load
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    Power usage?

    £30 gas, £40 electric a month.  
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    UK government quietly passed legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers

    The Tories have been in power for ~4-5 years (though - their coalition partners the liberal democrats were stopping extreme invasions to civil liberties). They've now got another 5 years after the recent election - but without the lib dems holding them back.  Within the first week, they've...
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    UK government quietly passed legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers

    Previously they couldn't use evidence obtained through unlawful surveillance or hacking in court. Now - I'm not so sure there's barriers preventing that... 
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    UK government quietly passed legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers

    I'm honestly curious when they start making other crimes legal for them and not for us. A bit of government breaking and entering, maybe a bit of murder on the side (they'll probably do Scottish nationalists first. I'd better hide). In all seriousness though, this Tory government is pathetic...
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    Binding a process to an IP on Linux

    This sort of thing can also be done using iptables SNAT in the POSTROUTING chain 
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    Should service providers be able to refuse service based on country?

    Had these as well, they're a dumb lot as well. They kept coming back even after being suspended after ~200 emails. Annoying. 
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    OpenVZ rescue console

    The main issue I see is that the user logging in - has permissions to run vzctl as superuser. If there's even the slightest flaw -- they've now got full access to all clients on the node's VPS.
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    OpenVZ rescue console

    I don't see that being a secure method unfortunately.  chroot jail may be worth investigating, though there's also lots of issues with it too... :/ 
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    Why do vps providers not allow TOR?

    Aren't those from people being connected to public trackers / uploading the material, rather than simply downloading? I think that's the point Aldryic was making. Example: I've never seen one that specified downloading. 
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    Why do vps providers not allow TOR?

    Tor exit nodes lead to seized equipment. Simple as that really. Nobody likes equipment seizures. 
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    ARIN Stock Changes Feb 2014 - Down to 1.38

    CGNAT isn't quite common here yet - pretty sure there's only been a few ISP's running opt-out trials (e.g. BT) 
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