Here is a simple PHP script that you can use to test if a port is open on the server or not. <?php $host = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']; $ports = array(21, 25, 80, 81, 110, 443, 3306); foreach ($ports as $port) { $connection = @fsockopen($host...
Here is a list of the top 10 most useful browser extensions that I use daily, and hopefully some other System Administrators and Web Developers will find them useful as well. AdBlocker Number one of this list is the first extension that I always...
If you’ve installed the official CentOS image, after trying to login as root you will see the following message: “Please login as the user “centos” rather than the user “root”. Here is how to permit root login in...
Here is yet another PHP Shell which I stumbled upon today. It’s pretty basic and allows an attacker to do pretty much the same as with any other shell. And here is the obfuscated code for the b374k shell 3.2: <?php function...
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On a WordPress website that is protected with ModSecurity, when admin edits pages using Elementor or Gutenber in wp-admin dashboard, ModSecurity may falsely detect it as XSS attack. What we usually do is disable specific rules that create this false...
PIP is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), so we first need to install EPEL: yum install epel-release Confirm the install and hit enter to complete the install process. then we can install python-pip: yum -y install python-pip...
Here is how to check MySQL databases for malware: Open up PHPMyAdminLook for anything ‘weird’ It’s that simple. What’s ‘weird’ you ask? Well, anything that’s ‘not supposed to be in the database’...
The two most frequently used storage methods for email server side are mbox and maildir. The mbox format is older and much less common, since its basically putting all your eggs in one basket. A single database file stores all of the...
It means to kill job number 1, not process number one. $ kill %1 Jobs can be listed with the jobs command. More broadly, it relates to whichever shell you are using, and the syntax could differ from shell to shell...