Configuring Apache with mod_qos to block AI scrapers and other bad bots and scanners from crawling your website.| Frederik Himpe
PHP-FPM is an ideal candidate to secure with AppArmor. Not only can the security of a web server be endangered by security bugs in PHP itself, it can also be affected by security holes in PHP applications. By confining PHP-FPM with AppArmor, we can limit abuse when a security hole is exploited, by preventing PHP-FPM for example from reading arbitrary files on your system or executing random binaries, which may contain a Linux backdoor or crypto-miner malware.| Frederik Himpe
Security hardening the OpenSSH server is one of the first things that should be done on any newly installed system. Brute force attacks on the SSH daemon are very common and unfortunately I see it…| Frederik Himpe
How to use the Solo V2 FIDO2 authentication key for two-factor authentication and OpenSSH| Frederik Himpe
How to mitigate security vulnerability CVE-2025-29927 in Next.js with Modsecurity web application firewall.| Frederik Himpe
How to secure your system from exploits in PHP applications by confining them with an AppArmor profile, separating different sites with AppArmor hats.| Frederik Himpe
The bookworm-frehi Debian package repository contains newer packages for AppArmor and libapache2-mod-qos fixing some bugs in Debian 12 Bookworm.| Frederik Himpe