This howto is going to assume you have a working Debian or Debian based system currently running. It is also intended to be copied and pasted directly into your telnet/ssh window. The package I am going to be using is called fail2ban. Fail2ban scans log files and bans IP addresses that produce too many failed [...]

Some people can be so ignorant. Nothing aggravates me more than a forum user who hotlinks an image or file from your site on a popular forum, but when webmasters create file repositories, and all of the files are linked from other peoples servers. Without permission. I’m sure there are many ways to prevent these [...]