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How To Setup a Firewall with UFW on an Ubuntu and Debian Server
One of the first lines of defense in securing your server is a functioning firewall. In the past, this was often done through complicated and arcane utilities. There is a lot of functionality built into these utilities, iptables being the most popular nowadays, but...
Fix IE10 and SBS 2008 RWW error
You just upgraded your workstation to Internet Explorer 10. But when you try to remote into your SBS 2008 server, you get a “VBScript: Remote Desktop Connection” error message, like this: The detail error message reads: The wizard cannot configure Remote...
Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet
Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP...
Widespread brute force attack targets WordPress
Last week a large scale, brute-force attack started targeting the default WordPress login pages of sites around the world. A brute-force attack is when an automated program or script, sometimes called a bot, tries to guess your password by repeatedly attempting to log...
Ubuntu / Debian Linux: Install and Setup TFTPD Server
Hw do I install and configure TFTP server under Debian or Ubuntu Linux server to configure networking equipment such as remote booting of diskless devices or remote loading of Unix like operating systems via PXE boot? tftpd is a server for the Trivial File Transfer...
How to Uninstall Teamviewer from Fedora, CentOS, Redhat Linux
Remove Teamviewer 7 [root@server ~]# rpm -e teamviewer7 Remove Teamviewer 6 [root@server ~]# rpm -e teamviewer6 Remove Teamviewer 5 [root@server ~]# rpm -e teamviewer5
Installing and using VirtualBox on CentOS
1. RPMforge for CentOS 6 The default RPMforge repository does not replace any CentOS base packages. In the past it used to, but those packages are now in a separate repository (rpmforge-extras) which is disabled by default. You can find a complete listing of the...
Installing sSMTP MTA (Mail Transfer Agent)
sSMTP is an extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things – no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured...
WordPress and problems with RewriteRules and w00t
Have you been recently seeing these URLs in error.log [error] [client 69.162.74.102] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:) The F flag sends a 403 Forbidden response when the rule matches: RewriteRule...
10 Linux DIG Command Examples for DNS Lookup
Dig stands for domain information groper. Using dig command you can query DNS name servers for your DNS lookup related tasks. This article explains 10 examples on how to use dig command. 1. Simple dig Command Usage (Understand dig Output) When you pass a domain name...
Top 10 Basic Network Troubleshooting Tools Every IT Pro Should Know
Network troubleshooting tools are a necessity for every network administrator. When getting started in the networking field, it is important to amass a number of tools that can be used to troubleshoot a variety of different network conditions. While it is true that...
Install GD Library For PHP5 On CentOS
An easy task, using yum. First step, see if it’s already installed. [root@optusnet]# rpm -qa | grep php php-common-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 If the GD Library isn’t present in...
WordPress permalink on CentOS 5 tutorial
The installation of WordPress is simple and straightforward. Really. So I’m not going to detail the installation process, which is well documented here. However, the permalink feature does not work out of the box on a standard CentOs 5 distribution. Some changes have...
Shut Down – View Details of Last Shutdown of Computer
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Linux Remote Desktop For Controlling Windows XP / Vista / 7 / Server 2003 2008 ( rdesktop )
I am responsible for couple of MS-Windows servers and Windows XP/Vista/7 workstations too. When I work from home, I need a way to get into Windows XP/2000/Vista/2003/2008/7/Vista operating systems for work. I have Debian and CentOS Linux at home, I needed a way to...
How to Run .BAT Files Invisibly, Without Displaying the Command Prompt Window
Batch files (.BAT) and Windows NT Command Script (.CMD) files run in console window when double-clicked. This means that the Command Prompt window will be visible until the .BAT/.CMD file execution is complete. To make .BAT or .CMD file execution less intrusive, you...