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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Happy Halloween – Daemons and Zombies
In the spirit of Halloween it’s time to acknowledge the supernatural beings that are in your servers! DAEMONS A server runs processes that have no obvious user interface for managing them. They are present and performing tasks, but can’t be … Continue reading
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Keeping Your Server Clean
As an interim to the rebuilding of my server story I discovered something when I was backing up everything and prepping it for reinstallation. It was the number of installations of various things installed on the server that had been … Continue reading
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Monitoring Your Site Maximising Uptime
Some useful tools used for monitoring your site can aid you as the user to keep your site up, keeping your business alive. Most companies will monitor your site for you and act on issues, however, having your own alerts … Continue reading
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How Security Conscious Are Internet Shoppers?
As we are approaching one of the busiest times of year for internet shopping I recently performed a simple survey of family and friends unconnected with the IT Industry. The topic – security and internet shopping. The survey was small … Continue reading
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Would you lay out the welcome mat for hackers?
The idea of willingly inviting hackers to break into your website or server may seem odd, but if the intention of the hacker are good (i.e. they don’t intend to use what they find to exploit your business) it can … Continue reading
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Use Rsync to synchronise files and directories
Rsync’s MAN page states – “a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool” Rsync is a very powerful tool used to copy files and directories on a local server or remotely. Its power lies in its ability to copy recursively, … Continue reading
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Basic WordPress Security
WordPress is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems (CMS) available, with over 25 million users worldwide. The core codebase is extremely secure, but it is all too easy to introduce vulnerabilities into your system. The first … Continue reading
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Concrete5 CMS Advisory – Multiple Vulnerabilities
Application : Concrete 5 Versions Affected: < 5.4 Exploit : Multiple SQL Injections and XSS Threat Level: Potentially high Fix: Update not available Credit: Ryan Dewhurst External Website: http://www.concrete5.org What does it mean, do I have to do anything, if … Continue reading
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Is Query Cache a Good Thing?
There is no doubt that the MySQL is one of the most popular open source database servers out there. It is a free, powerful and reliable tool to store most types and sets of data. One thing worth mentioning however, … Continue reading
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