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Wordpress zero day and malware

Fri 06 February 2015
The goal of most hackers is to infect your website with malware. Common malware threats include: Pharma Hacks – Injects spam into your website database or files Backdoors – Allows hackers to gain access to your website at any time using FTP or your WordPress admin area Drive by Downloads – When a …

Interesting blog

Tue 27 January 2015
 Welcome to Blogsy! __Let’s get started. * Set up your blog by going to the Settings Menu → Service Settings. Then choose your blog platform and fill in your information. * Tap on the Post Info. button to get to all post information. * Tap on the Plus button to start a new …

speedtest

Wed 14 January 2015
Every now and then is is handy to check the speed of an internet connection. There a lots of websites around the internet that allow you to do this but each has their issues here is a handy script I found on the internet that does just that its a …

How I replicate my Bash enviroment circa 2008

Wed 14 January 2015
Being a linux guy at heart, I normally use the bash environment, each time I logged in to a different server I needed to setup a completely new environment for bash. here is my original from 2008 ;) At the top of your .bashrc script add this: VERSION=”1.1.4 …

Products

Wed 14 January 2015
New products and services are the lifeblood of all businesses. Investing in their development isn’t an optional extra - it is crucial to business growth and profitability. But embarking on the development process is risky. It needs considerable planning and organisation. This guide will outline the key stages in the …

DNS config

Tue 13 January 2015
// This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server named. acl “lan_hosts” { 192.168.150.0/24; # network address of your local LAN 192.168.130.0/24; # network address of your local DMZ 192.168.180.0/24; # network address of your local VPN 192.168 …

Ldap sync

Tue 13 January 2015
Primary LDAP Server: This is the main slapd configuration file. See slapd.conf(5) for more info on the configuration options. Global Directives: Features to permit allow bind_v2 Schema and objectClass definitions include /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/nis …

Install old version of firefox

Tue 13 January 2015
Focal-point needs a particular version of firefox to work: Officially, as far as access are concearned anything above version 5 will cause issues with focalpoint and is not supported by them in practise version 29.0.1 is tested and known to work ok on windows goto this website to …

Using SSH

Tue 13 January 2015
Access to servers within ARGOSS use SSH. blah blah SSH as a rule is installed by the default installation, but if you havent already created a key set then this procedure needs to be carried out before you can acces any of the servers within the ARGOSS Unix network. First …

Changing UID

Tue 13 January 2015
All users accounts have NEW UID in the ldap to change current accounts over these are the current draft procedures: First we need to retrieve the users information stored on the ldap server but before that install the ldap-utils. ldapsearch -x -h mariner -b “dc=argoss,dc=nl” -s sub …