DSBL Defunct
The DSBL real-time blacklist was shutdown almost a year ago. However, their nameservers continued to answer requests until yesterday. If you are using list.dsbl.org in your RBL settings, you will…
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The Context Web 2.0 applications, social networks and SaaS often start out as small projects. The key participants find they have many challenges. From creating code to finding funding, these…
Why Not Customize Red Hat? Security and Stability
This week, Red Hat has rolled out RHEL 5.3,. We’ve been busy pushing it out to our servers as we like to keep them updated. Along with the 5.3 release,…
How to Securely Managed Files with Secure FTP SCP WinSCP
Still using FTP? If so, you may want to consider this: Every time your FTP client logs into your server, you are sending your user name and password over the…
Charitable Donations Replace Holiday Cards
In the past few years, rackAID has sent out holiday cards and sometimes trinkets to our clients with management contracts. This year, we have elected not to send out cards…
Ending Clear Text Protocols
We spend a lot of time and money trying to keep our systems secure. From security patches to intrusion prevention systems, we attempt to fortify our systems from the hackers…
POP Before SMTP and IP Forwarding
Recently we migrated some servers to a new IP address. About a day after the migration, a client complained that their email was delayed. When we investigated, we found 10,000’s…