Published at: 10:08 am - Thursday August 25 2011
Today I read about a 0-day exploit for the apache webserver on golem.de. A quick test if the webserver on my debian VPS is also vulnerable was successful. But the proposed workaround works quite well for me. Here are the steps, that I did to prevent my own apache webserver from being exploited (default apache2 [...]
Published at: 11:08 am - Friday August 05 2011
For a public surfstation available for free we needed to have a system, that just simply always works. No user should be able to reset any configuration-settins, change the wallpaper, modify favorites or anything like that. The decision of the operating system was easy: Linux! The needed tasks to install this system are the following: [...]