Over the past couple of days I’ve been setting up a new box running Windows Server 2008 r2. One of the main requirements for it was that it should be able to accept file uploads via FTP. This wasn’t too much of a problem and seemed to be relatively easy… Install the IIS r...
Upon trying to login to SugarCRM ealier today I kept getting an error stating “You have been logged out because your session has expired”. I knew the details were correct but no matter how many times I tried the same message kept coming up and I could not login. Upon fumbling a...
Whilst recently carrying out a security audit, one of the tasks on my list was to refine the permissions that MySQL users have. One of the users in the list was called ‘admin’. It had full permissions to all databases which struck me as a bit unsafe so, seeing as I wasn’t...
When viewing and editing files, Linux’s nano command can be very useful. One of the primary reasons for my usage of nano is reading log files that can be hundreds, if not thousands of lines long. In this scenario one of the most useful commands required is to quickly jump to the top ...
With a system thats regularly creating files on-the-fly it’s important to keep track of the filesizes to monitor disk usage. One of the daily tasks I perform is to track the filesize of files created within the last day by running the following on the command line: find /directory_na...
I had a scenario recently where bandwidth usage on a server was becoming an issue. As a result the need arose to find out if any third party websites or scripts were excessively referencing the server. To do this, one of the steps taken was to identify and locate any IP addresses repeatedl...
Being a fan of staying on top of the latest technology I was excited when I saw that WordPress 3.2 had been released. Not only from a functionality point of view, but a security one too. It boasted many improvements that I was keen to get my hands on. Upon going to update WordPress I [...]...
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