Releasing on GitHub my AWS EC2Backuper: Uses Tag and Applies Retention Policy

As introduction, you can read my post a year ago about AWS EC2 backup ecosystem and needs

https://zoumana.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/aws-ec2backuper-tool/

EC2Backuper is a multi-platform (Java based with bat and shell launchers) which goal is to

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IPTABLES: Prevent a server from spamming out

Your server can somehow be compromised and used to spam (email): if it’s a cloud or a dedicated server subscribed from a decent provider, they will notify you about that (i speak from experience here :-))

Any way to prevent yourself from that or to block back in case you are facing it already, here are simple iptables rules

My Docker getting started : packaging my java standalone application inside docker

« Unless you spent the last months in a cave » 🙂 I always wanted to start a post with this sentence so now it is done –> You have probably heard about Docker !

I was victim from AWS public AMI hidden backdoor :-)

Today i received an email from AWS telling me that one of the EC2 instance i’m running is doing DDoS against an other server (against port 80 through UDP)

Here are my suggestions to start investigating on this kind of issue:

Install VMware tools on Ubuntu virtual machine

http://ghosttx.com/2012/03/how-to-install-vmware-tools-v4-on-ubuntu-11-10-server/