Wouldn’t be surprised if the big guys got first dibs before everyone else

Synology had a critical system and PHP package update yesterday, could it be related 🤔

I mean, unattended upgrades has it’s own config file where you can specify when to schedule a reboot (when needed), which you’d usually do in off-hours like 2 AM your local time, so changing the Systemd unit activation time seems like the wrong fix.

Edit: Nevermind, your issue was that the daemons were being rebooted, not the whole system, if I understood that correctly

• Forgejo for private git repos, coz F GitHub (F as in paying respect obviously… :v)
• Portainer, though don’t use much as of late as I got used to the CLI
• qBittorrent for Linux ISOs. No, really, I use it to download Linux ISOs :v
• WireGuard, several instances, some for accessing specific services, one for accessing GeoIP blocked content when traveling
• Vaultwarden for managing passwords
• Home Assistant for managing a couple of sensors
• Nginx Proxy Manager for managing hosts
• TeamSpeak 6, just playing around with the beta for now
• Apache Subversion for private SVN repos
• A handmade C# service for storing some MQTT data into a database
• peaNUT a NUT dashboard for the UPS
• RustDesk for remote management of desktops

As for the hardware:

• A Raspberry pi 4 running Docker containers
• A Dell Wyse 5070 (16GB) running Proxmox with mainly Alpine Linux VMs

For frequently changing data hourly up to 24, daily up to 7, weekly upto 4, monthly up to 12.

For daily changing data daily up to 7 and etc. as above.

For seldom changing data a backup every 3 days with rotation based on a storage quota, and retention of manually held samples.

Did you read it to the end?

Without root user login, the attacker would have to guess not only the password to the user but also the username (hopefully it’s not something simple like admin), and once you are logged in you can use sudo -i to chage into root, which will require a password, therefore, we also disable password login so if someone does manage to somehow compromise the SSH user, they’d still need the password to become root.

You could spin a publicly exposed WireGuard daemon firewalled to allow peers access to the non-public SSH port only, which would result in double encryption, but would give you the peace of mind that an attacker would have to compromise both at the same time, which is very unlikely. Plus, WireGuard is very cheap to deploy and produces no logs. We use that model in my office to access our server.

Edit: Otherwise, as others mentioned, you’d move the SSH daemon to a random port, disable password login and weaker keys and cyphers, setup Fail2ban, and optionally setup GeoIP blocking (only allow IPs from your region to connect).

Not in the US, at work we pay 6 times the rate I pay at home for 1/6 the speed I get at home, everyone hates our office internet speed 😂, at least it’s static do we can host stuff

Either use a dynamic DNS service, as many others have mentioned and probably easiest, or, assuming you only want yourself to have access to the services, another option is to use something like Tailscale or a WireGuard/FRP instance in a static VPS as the rendezvous point.

I was flat out rejected by my ISP to have a static IP, though I only had it changed once since I started hosting services, so ahatever.

Yep, my network was set up before the ISPs here merged by a smaller one that did things simpler, so I dont even have an ISP modem, just my OpenWRT router and no CGNAT, and I’ve only had my IP change once so far (since I started caring about it at least). Everything newer around uses ISP modems and are behind CGNAT, on my mates modem, they wouldn’t even let him set up his Wi-Fi, he had to go with double NAT-ing and setting 2 APs next to each other (the ISP modem/router has some default trash Wi-Fi). I’m praying they never bother coming to me 🙏

Never expose the bare remote control endpoint publicly. For example, recently macOS had a critical vulnerability where an attacker could completely bypass authentication on their Screen Sharing daemon, and the researcher had estimates around 40k publicly exposed systems, and it was found out that the vulnerability was in fact being used in the wild. Exposing things like that publicly is asking for trouble.

Personally I don’t like relying on 3rd party systems like Tailscale, so I just have a WireGuard peer running firewalled to only allow access to what is necessary, though you can skip the firewall part. This obviously assumes you have a routable public IP, i.e. no CGNAT, if that’s not the case Tailscale is probably what you want.