Hardening Shared Linux Hosting Kernels: What cfm kernsec Actually Does (and Doesn’t Do)

by

A grounded look at kernel attack surface reduction for production hosting servers — no silver bullets, just honest defense. The kernel LPE wave of 2025–2026 was a good reminder that most Linux servers are running with more attack surface exposed than they need. Dirty Frag, Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), the ksmbd parade, watch_queue, Dirty Cred — … Read more

CVE-2026-41940: The 64-Day Backdoor Into the Internet’s Control Plane

by

A critical authentication bypass in cPanel & WHM gave attackers root access to over a million publicly exposed servers — silently, without a password, defeating two-factor authentication — for sixty-four days before anyone patched a thing. What Was Actually at Stake cPanel and WHM are not just web applications. They are the administrative nervous system … Read more

Argus: when a Netflow engine grows into its own platform

by

There was a point where it became obvious that flowenricher had outgrown its original shape. It started as an engine: ingesting NetFlow/IPFIX, enriching traffic with ASN, GeoIP, BGP path, PTR and SNMP data, running detections, and handling mitigation/blackhole logic. The backend side was already doing serious work. But the operator experience around it still belonged … Read more

Local LLM spam classifier — model shootout

by

We tested 9 local LLM models as spam classifiers on an AMD EPYC 4545P running Ollama. Here’s what we found. After setting up the SpamAssassin + Ollama integration (see the previous post), the obvious next question was: is qwen2.5:7b actually the best choice, or did we just get lucky picking it first? So we ran … Read more

Local LLM for mail spam/ham classification Part 1

by

In which I spend a Sunday morning asking a local AI to tell me whether emails about cheap Viagra are, in fact, about cheap Viagra. Spoiler: the 0.5b model cannot. The Problem SpamAssassin is great. Bayes is great. RBLs are great. But spam has gotten weird. Greek-language product spam from hacked domains with randomized subfolders … Read more

Mikrotik router + Nexus switch lockdown

by

Scenario: You’re handing over a server to someone else to administer, but you retain control of the network. You want to prevent them from changing the server’s IP address, adding extra IPs, or bypassing your network rules — also give management without giving them VPN access to your management subnet. Stack used: RouterOS 7.x (CCR2004), … Read more