October 28th, 2011 by peter.bassill

I have been asked on a few occasions if I would put together an outline on how to build a secure server from scratch. Having thought the topic through on a number of occasions and having tried to write this blog article on what is probably nearer 20 times I finally bit the bullet and got on with it.

In this post, I will explore how to take a default Ubuntu install, in this case it is 11.04 server, and build it as a secure web server.

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October 23rd, 2011 by peter.bassill

Every day I log into my  email server and that spam folder mail count has increased. This morning was not different, although when I logged in the email server today and I had spam in my inbox. Started me thinking is Spamassassin had died, it had! So I thought I would post this with comments on why this is very much wrong.

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