It's a floppy dog…
In the Linux/Unix/*BSD and their various flavours, the “root” user is the most powerful user on the whole system. If anyone gains access to this user, they can literally do anything, including wiping the whole […]
In most cases, you will be using an application called Yum to work with packages on CentOS. Yum — Yellowdog Updater Modified — was originally created for a Linux distribution called (perhaps obviously) Yellowdog, but […]
I recently installed a minimal version of Centos 6, which meant that many of the basic tools were not installed by default. But how do you find which package a tool or application is in? […]
It’s been a while since I last updated. A very long while, but I will try and post stuff a little more often. Dig is a DNS tool used to grab information about DNS records […]
Over the weekend, an announcement was made by security experts that the popular web host control panel, cPanel is vulnerable to CRFS (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. The attacks can happen when visiting malicious web sites […]
Chances are you’ve downloaded an archive and extracted it into your web space, then noticed that all of the files are set to world writeable. Some people wouldn’t know any better, but it could be […]
I’m in the process of transferring data from an old Linux machine to a new one, and one particular directory contained too much data to compress into one single huge file, so I decided to […]