Whatever the motivation for you to consider this—though after all, there are countries attacking, invading, and occupying other countries (e.g., Russia, Israel) and countries committing genocides (e.g., Israel)—, here’s one streamlined approach to geographic IP blocking via .htaccess
IPdeny offers country GEO IP address block downloads free of charge. Our country based IP zone files can be easily used in your applications and web sites to minimize on-line fraud, SPAM, floods and sometimes brute force attacks. IPdeny country IP block files can be used to set-up firewall or packet filter rules to disable specific service access and ports based on a specific country.
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The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.
This is a repository for different Linux distributions, currently for Debian and Ubuntu. The repository contains the necessary packages in pre-compiled binary (and source) format for a WAF (Web Application Firewall).
ModSecurity is an open source, cross-platform web application firewall (WAF) module. Known as the “Swiss Army Knife” of WAFs, it enables web application defenders to gain visibility into HTTP(S) traffic and provides a power rules language and API to implement advanced protections.
In the end, the choice between Debian and Red Hat isn’t just about corporate influence versus community-driven development. It’s also a choice between a system that assumes the best and one that prepares for the worst. Unfortunately in today’s highly connected world, pessimism is a necessity.
Linux Access Control Lists, or ACLs, can take some getting used to, but they're invaluable for getting a finer-grained control of your Linux filesystem permissions.
The ICO said hackers had access to the Electoral Commissions' systems for over a year. It was only spotted when an employee reported that spam emails were being sent from the commission's own email server.
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Josh and Kurt talk about a story talking about the “graying” of open source. There doesn’t seem to be many young people working on open source, but we don’t really know why that is. There are many thoughts, but a better question is why should anyone get involved in open source anymore? The world has changed quite a lot since open source was created.
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
This problem would not exist had someone not had the amazingly brilliant idea of stuffing HTML into email. The ASCII ribbon campaign was an Internet phenomenon started in 1998 advocating that email be sent only in plain text, because of the dangers of using HTML in email. Go figure, the Unix graybeards were right!
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