Tag: Web servers
Secure Your Network with Firewall Builder
A firewall isolates a trusted, secure internal network from another network like the Internet, which is not regarded as either trusted or secure. Firewall...
Getting Started with HTML5 WebSockets
Ever felt that in the so called two-way Web, updating Web pages in real-time is a pain? Well, the HTML5 specifications took care of...
Methods To Lock Down WordPress wp-admin, and Accessing it Using SOCKS5...
It's as simple as this: have SSH listen on the standard port 22, and when you check your server logs, you see all sorts...
Cyber Attacks Explained: Web Exploitation
Websites are no longer merely about having an "Internet presence" today, but are also used for commercial transactions and to transfer sensitive data. Such...
Web Acceleration with Varnish 3.0
In this article we'll setup a ready-to-deploy WordPress-compatible Varnish service as our HTTP reverse caching proxy, and have it cache the desktop and mobile...
Cyber Attacks Explained: Packet Spoofing
Last month, we started this series to cover the important cyber attacks that impact critical IT infrastructure in organisations. The first was the denial-of-service...
Supercharge Your Self-Hosted WordPress Blog with Nginx & FastCGI
If you are running WordPress on a VPS, you've got all the power in the world to run the site exactly the way you...
Cyber Attacks Explained: DoS and DDoS
With this article, we begin a new series on the major kinds of cyber attacks that weaken the IT security infrastructure within organisations. With...
Kerala State Electricity Board Saves a Whopping Rs 8 Crore, Using...
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) switched to open source solutions only a few years back, and now, not only manages the accounting and billing...
Securing Apache, Part 9: Attacks that Target PHP-based Instances
Beginning with Part 1 of this series, we have covered all major attacks on Web applications and servers, with examples of vulnerable PHP code....
