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LMD 1.3.9: Quietly Awesome
Mar 16th
It has been a busy couple of weeks for the LMD project, lots of late nights and sleepless days behind me and I can say I am a ‘little’ happier with where things are in the project now
This release has no major feature changes or additions other than a modification in the default hexdepth that is used to scan malware; increased from 15,736 to 61,440 (1024*60). This enables LMD to better detect threats that it was having a little difficulty with due to the byte size of some malware. At the moment there is no byte-offset feature that would More >
Happy Birthday APF: 8 Years Strong
Mar 9th
On this day eight years ago, Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) version 0.5 for Linux was publicly released. Since then, APF has stood the test of time and still remains to this day, one of the most widely used Linux firewall solutions, with especially high usage in the web hosting industry.
I was 18 years old when APF first met the world, I was a very different person back then and so to was the web hosting industry. There was but a handful of dedicated server providers, it was a time when Cobalt RAQ’s still dominated a large part of the More >
Raid Management: Know Whats Really Going On
Feb 14th
In today’s hosting environment it is common place for servers to have hardware based raid cards but what is not common place is having a reliable method for checking the status of the raid arrays. Few would question the value to data integrity by making use of raid technology but very few organizations and businesses implement the tools required to proactively maintain raid arrays, they simply hope for a DC tech to hear a raid alarm and assume the technician will handle the failure. The reality is very different, data centers are loud and increasingly server-dense so hearing a raid More >
Facebook & Twitter: Meh
Nov 30th
This is a short one, the title says it all. I have decided to start doing a bit more casual posting (tweeting?) on a twitter account I just setup and since I already toss a bunch of crap on my fcbk account about rfxn.com, figured I would throw everyone the details for both:
Donations: By The Numbers
Nov 18th
I was recently asked by someone about the donations that rfxn.com receives, more specifically what it amounts to. In the interest of answering this person and anyone else who may be curious, I thought I would put together a small post about it.
Firstly, what needs to be said is that although the projects have been active for nearly 8 years and will pass 700,000 downloads sometime in January 2011, I have only been accepting donations since late January of 2006. Around this time, is when rfxn.com had a shift from a for-profit managed services provider which offered our projects as More >
LMD: One Year Later
Nov 8th
With my move back to Canada behind me and adjusting to some new routines with life, its about time to get back into the mix with the projects. Though things have been slow the last couple of months, it has not stopped me from making sure regular and prompt malware updates are released.
Today, we reflect on the first year of Linux Malware Detect, which was released in a very infantile beta release about a year ago. The project has evolved in allot of ways from its original goals, it has certainly changed in every way for the better. What was More >
