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Category Archives: Web Security

Adding Throttling Notifications For iRedAdmin Mail

By default iRedMail doesn’t send out notifications if throttling has occurred. There is no clear documentation on how to set it up. So here is what i found works : Assuming you have fail2ban loaded (which I believe iRedMail has by default): 1. Update the Jail Configuration Edit the Fail2Ban jail configuration: sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local […]

Don’t Use Paypal – Increasingly Dysfunctional

I have held a Paypal business account for over 10 years. While the fees and charges have been eye watering at times it has been a place to make payments reasonably safely. This started to change a couple of years back. Recurring payments set up with no explicit warning the payments you are making through […]

Have you been black listed by UCEPROTECTL3 – UCEProtect.net

I’m going to get my opinion out of the way right up front – do not use UCEPRotect ( http://www.uceprotect.net ) as part of your blacklist / anti spam protection process. Their business is unethical, their services incompetent and their processes deeply deeply flawed. Wow that’s quite an opinion right there. Why would I think […]

.HTAccess Redirect to Maintenance Page

The following .htaccess code will allow you to set a 301 redirect on your site – using a set of ip addresses that can still log in. Ideal for fixing up things if there has been a hack or other issue. # MAINTENANCE-PAGE REDIRECT RewriteEngine on #add IP addresses that are allowed to access the […]