{"id":31679,"date":"2020-09-12T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=31679"},"modified":"2020-09-12T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:02:44","slug":"technical-and-security-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=31679","title":{"rendered":"Technical and Security stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. It\u2019s been a while since I put in an appearance. I\u2019ve been busy trying to get a supply of duct tape, chewing gum and bailing wire to keep everything running.<\/p>\n

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While doing this, I was notified by our hosting company a few weeks ago that some jackass has hacked a site I help administer. We quickly cleaned up the mess and I\u2019ve locked the site down pretty significantly. It\u2019s not a high traffic site, and it looks like the scumbag was using it to send out spam.<\/p>\n

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After I locked everything down, I started seeing messages from Loginizer reporting attempts to access an account on that site. The account has been disabled so it\u2019s a waste of time. What I noticed was that these jerks, probably from Russia or the Ukraine were bouncing around any number of IP addresses trying to get around the lockouts. Bad news numbnuts. All your doing is giving us more information to find you.<\/p>\n

On the technical side of the house, Firefox has upgraded to the version 80 range. As you would expect, there have been some \u201cIssues,\u201d with the newest version. The major one is getting it to hold the font size\/web page size settings. Both the Nitwit owner and I wear glasses and we both like to crank up the default size a bit to make it easier to read web sites.<\/p>\n

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While we\u2019re doing this, the site will default back from our setting to 100% We normally use a plugin called Zoom Page WE, and it worked fine for years. It\u2019s upgraded constantly. However it isn\u2019t holding the settings in Firefox now. I\u2019ve tried disabling it and just using the built in settings, and even removing and re-adding the plugin. Nothing seems to help.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve used Firefox since it replaced Mozilla, and honestly, it isn\u2019t getting the support it once did. I really don\u2019t like Chrome or Edge, and I hope that by version 81 they will have fixed the problem. I\u2019m reviewing any fixes I can try in the mean time. At least I don\u2019t have to replace my central heating system like the Angry Dork.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/p>\n

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~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n