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In the past 24 hours, two critical flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs were publicly released to the public. Both of them were originally discovered last year by Google’s Project …
Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities: what you need to know Read More
The ability to perform a true deep copy of an object is a classic requirement for most software developers. For those who need to understand the key difference between a …
How to perform a Deep Copy / Deep Clone of an object in ASP.NET C# Read More
If you need to replace the default timezone of your Linux installation with your own timezone you can do that using the timedatectl command, a new utility for the distributions …
How to set Time, Timezone and System Clock in Linux CentOS, Fedora & RHEL using timedatectl Read More
Here's a common issue that every Windows System Administrators will experience sooner or later when dealing with Windows Server (or Windows 10) and its odd way to handle the Administrators …
Windows Users in Administrators Group without Administrator rights - How to Fix Read More
In this article we'll show you how to create a self-signed TLS/SSL certificate and configure it in Apache or Nginx web server to allow secure, encrypted connections. This tutorial will …
How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 A handy guide explaining how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for your NGINX or Apache web site with Linux CentOS 7.x to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 Read More
We already talked a number of times of Nginx, allegedly one of the best web server, load balancers and HTTP accelerators out there these days. Among its most useful, but …
NGINX Rate Limiting: how to protect your web site from HTTP request flood, DoS and brute-force attacks Read More
Today I had to fix a nasty issue in one of my PHP-based websites: to put it into few words, I needed to find a way to trasform a number …
MySQL function (and query) to convert a string into a slug for readable URL permalinks Read More
Everyone who wants to make his WordPress web site more secure should definitely spend at least one hour of his life reading the Hardening WordPress chapter of the WP official …
How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script Read More
In this previous post we explained how to install and configure a FTP server in Linux CentOS 7 using the popular VSFTPD open-source package. As we have clarified there, the File …
How to secure VSFTPD FTP Server using a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate in CentOS 7 - FTPS Read More FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a traditional and widely used standard for transferring files over a network. The transfer happens via a standard client-server connection with or without …
How to install and configure a FTP Server in Linux CentOS 7.x with VSFTPD Read More