Tag: security

  • Ransomware Encrypted My Backups. The Second Backup Saved Everything.

    A ransomware attack hit my homelab and encrypted every connected drive — including the primary backups. The only thing that saved years of data was a secondary offline backup that the attackers never touched. Here’s what happened, what I lost, what I kept, and the backup strategy every homelab needs.

  • Solving RDP issues in Ubuntu XRDP

    Solving RDP issues in Ubuntu XRDP

    👋 Hey everyone! In this article, I’m going to share how I was finally able to connect to an Ubuntu machine running in Hyper-V via xrdp. 🤔 The issue I was facing was that I could connect via vsock, but I needed to allow TCP connections from any IP address. Here’s what I did to…