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submitted 1 year ago by HurlingDurling@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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No awards are needed, just wanted to share my excitement that while my Jellyfin server still keeps loosing my entire library every 24 hours at least now it has a domain and ssl cert!

That is all. Happy Friday everyone

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Bots randomly attack stuff, and if you leave something insecure, they'll install a bot net node.

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[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Define "insecure".

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Default passwords, old insecure versions of apps and system packages, etc. "Just getting it working" usually leaves things insecure, and you usually need to take things a step further to secure your publicly accessible services.

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Not just old insecure, but current insecure too. Plenty of stuff runs fully current but still vulnerable code. Put it behind a firewall.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Sure. My point is that self-hosters tend to let services sit without updates for months if not years at a time. That's fine if you don't expose anything to the internet, so keep that surface area as limited as possible.

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