#security Articles


Configure SFTP access to your Ubuntu server through SSH

Sometimes you have to give your users a way to manage files on your server. A typical scenario is a web server where your users manage their websites by themselves. The classical approach in this scenario was to use FTP to give file management capabilities to your users, but it …

  • Mon 31 March 2014
  • web

How to protect your Joomla instance from brute force attacks with Fail2ban

If you administer at least one Joomla instance you’ll be subject to brute force attacks before or after. Fail2ban is a very nice service written in Python which periodically scans your log files looking for signs of brute force attacks and perform some actions when an attack is discovered …