While Conficker is not a new worm it has been getting much press lately. Even though Redmond released a patch late October it is estimated that 5 to 10 million PC have been infected. The industry has been aware of this worm for some time and has mounted a fairly impressive counter attack.
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Last week I was on a conference call with some potential client when one of the senior business people said: “And then we could use cloud computing or something, to get this application in the hands of everyone”. That’s when I thought – wow – this term really has penetrated into the mainstream. Cloud [...]
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This post will guide you in adding new or custom ticket status on your Mantis bug tracker installation. In our case we will refer the new status as GTG (GoodToGo). Ticket will have this status if it is ready to push to production. To do this we need to edit two files, config_inc.php and custom_strings_inc.php [...]
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We have several SSL to transfer to our new load-balancer (Nginx) and all of the private keys contain passphrase. During Nginx (same with Apache) service restart it requires to enter the passphrase of all certificates, so we need to remove it. This task is very simple, you only need to issue this command: /usr/sbin/openssl rsa [...]
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One of my friend asked for help about virus appearing on his sites (mostly WordPress sites). I checked it out and my Kaspersky Internet Security blocked the pages from loading, so i downloaded the files manually and scanned html with Kaspersky to determine affected files. I noticed that the affected files were PHP and HTML [...]
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Many ftp client will try to establish a passive connection with a server by default. A passive connection will use a high numbered unprivileged port range greater then 1023 (PASV) instead of port 20 (PORT). Most ftp servers specify different ranges that are to be used for passive connections.
FFMPEG announces a new release today. It releases version 0.5 The slashodot peculated this ffmpeg related post to the top of its news today: After many years of release-free development, FFmpeg, the most widely used audio and video codec library, has finally returned to a regular release schedule with the long-awaited version 0.5 Here is [...]
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For those of us who use Linux as a desktop replacement for Windows would find it nice to be able to run the ASDM client natively. If you haven’t upgraded your ASA/PIX to the latest ASDM you should do so. The steps are described here.
In some cases you would want to have your site use SSL (https://) at all times you can do this by using: 1.) Using Htaccess/mod_rewrite. You only need to create a .htaccess file on your home directory and add the codes below: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L] </IfModule> The [...]
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