[CentOS] Firefox Issue

Mon Jan 9 17:26:29 UTC 2017
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Mon, January 9, 2017 11:16 am, Albert McCann wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Always
>> Learning
>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 11:23 AM
>> To: Centos <centos at centos.org>
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue
>
>> > On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts.
>
>> > Better fight with bits than blood.
>>
>> Agreed. One of my Apache defenses is to redirect probes/hacks to
>> 127.0.0.1 :-)
>
> I'm redirecting some things to www.fbi.gov as well as 127.0.0.1 here,
> plus using mod_geoip, ipset, and the mother of all network level
> blacklists in ipset. One large list that cut the number of attacks was
> blocking ALL Amazon AWS services. That reduced attacks by at least half.

Clousflare would be another one worth mentioning. They are much nastier,
BTW, IMHO:

https://wordtothewise.com/2012/07/cloudflare-and-spamhaus/

Valeri

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