Shamlessly grep’d from the http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/ There be good stuff here… I'm not an electrician. While I am pretty confident that I can change a light bulb or plug something into…

Shamlessly grep’d from the http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/ There be good stuff here… Security is a measurement of risk. Nothing is ever secure, but things can be made secure enough. Most of the…

Shamlessly grep'd from the http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/ There be good stuff here... In my last three entries about minimal web server security, I covered security by obscurity methods to deter a blind…

The find utility on linux allows you to pass in a bunch of interesting arguments, including one to execute another command on each file. We’ll use this in order to…

From Yahoo answers So you’ve got MySQL on your web server, but it’s only opened to local ports by default for security reasons. If you want to access your database…

When you check the email relayers option within WHM then it shows empty. You can try the following change on your server. Using pico or vim pico /etc/passwd and search…

If you would like to password protect a directory, create a .htaccess file in a directory which you wish to protect and insert the following parameters: AuthUserFile /home/username/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null…