August 11, 2026
My Server Was Compromised — and Recovery Took One Command
The site was down, so I did what anyone does: I opened a terminal and started looking. What I found was a process called kmod-cache-update, which sounds like something the kernel would run and is in fact XMRig, an open-source Monero miner,…
May 25, 2026
What's my public IP? Meet ifconfig.me
If you've ever set up a VPS, configured a router, asked a hosting provider to whitelist your office, debugged a webhook that wouldn't fire, or pointed a DNS record at a freshly-provisioned server, you've hit the same question I have a…