We have recently encountered a creative way to hide exploits on WP sites by using plugins that provide custom PHP code snippets. This article should serve as a warning why such plugins are automatically a security risk and should be avoided on all Wordpress sites whenever possible.
We have recently moved all Wordpress-based development in Triton IT to Bedrock by Roots.io. One of the perks of this system is the ability to manage all external code with PHP composer. What is the only caveat?
There is an additional service named netplan.io that overrides it. If you get rid of it, systemd-networkd will function correctly, just as described in the documentation.
The time has come for us in WebMedea to move away from the iptables firewall. While the software remains actively maintained by Netfilter, I've set my eyes upon the more recently developed nftables as it seems easier to administer and maintain rules. Nftables unifies all the separate utilities of arptables, ebtables, iptables and ip6tables into a single one. It has slightly different rule writing…
Recent Debian (and Devuan) releases have disabled ssh and rsh protocols as possible transfer method of packages. The solution to permit them again is to re-enable them in apt configuration file.Create your own config file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30-ssh-transport and paste the following:Dir::Bin::Methods::rsh "rsh";Dir::Bin::Methods::ssh "ssh";Package transport over both protocols should be re-enabled…