For users with public facing services: How does the current explosion of AI-discovered vulnerabilities affect your threat model and willingness to be public facing? (lemmy.ml)

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PHP, TLS, etc.. We appear to be facing a tsunami of vulnerabilities being discovered in record time. Further, the window to act on these vulnerabilities has basically closed to zero; hackers' tools now automatically fold the very latest vulnerabilities into their botnets within minutes/hours of discovery. I have always been extremely reluctant to expose any of my services - even with the latest and greatest security tools. My choice to stay totally within the confines of tailscale seems vindicated given this week's news. How are you all taking this?

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[-] tigerhawkvok@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, if you use something like Nginx Proxy Manager you can't use the automatic flow, you need to use the token based challenge.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Boo, no idea why acme forces these specific ports. Swapping them seems like a pretty basic obfuscation technique that could help a lot to secure any services.

Edit: actually seems like this might be possible with the dns challenge type. I'm gonna test this out later https://github.com/caddy-dns/porkbun

[-] tigerhawkvok@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

It is, that's what I had meant by token based challenge lol. You need a DNS API key for your manager to do it directly, it flags a DNS record with a token to validate ownership. I was just calling it out from memory, sorry!

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Much appreciated stranger. Hopefully now I can stop exposing the two most attacked ports in existence from my LAN XD.

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