Sep 14, 2008 | Current Affairs, Events, General, Science, Security, Technical
Yes, a Greek group had hacked into the facility and displayed a page with the headline “GST: Greek Security Team.” on cmsmon.cern.ch – This website is no longer available for public. Following picture shows the defaced CMS index page. Telegraph...
Sep 7, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Security, Technical
While working with live servers, its very important to ensure that the services which are running on them are tweaked and tuned for optimized performance. Same thing applies to MySQL, which is the back bone of many websites. One of the tools which I have been using...
Sep 4, 2008 | QuickFix, Security, Technical
Ultimately nothing is secure and it depends on our risk taking capacity to go ahead with what we have got. Few of my friends from The Wifi-Hack have been quite busy testing Chrome and they also found few news updates from security hackers and watchers community. A new...
Aug 29, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Security, Technical
Today I was unable to start apache on one of the VPS servers. Here is the error_log output. [Thu Aug 28 16:45:02 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache2.pid overwritten — Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Thu Aug 28 16:45:02 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.3...
Aug 26, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Security, Technical
Couple of weeks back few of Fedora servers have been compromised or there was a security breach. It has been confirmed by Fedora project leader via mailing list post. This security breach has compromised OpenSSH packages on Fedora distributions. The issue is being...
Aug 18, 2008 | Events, General, linux, QuickFix, Security, Technical
I thought I will have a great Sunday and sleep for long hours. I was stuck with a networking issue on one of the HyperVM Server. Ips of VE’s were not pinging from outside world. All due to misconfiguration of SonicWall firewall and also the weird CentOS 5.2...
Aug 11, 2008 | General, QuickFix, Security, Technical
PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app...
Jul 26, 2008 | Current Affairs, Events, General, Security
Its not yet over. Yesterday serial bomb blasts shook the entire city and today an another live bomb was found near the shopping mall where I used to hang around last year. “The Forum” is one of the famous shopping mall in Koramangala. Its very close to the...
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