Fine tuning apache and mysql for performance and security

I’ve gone through a process of migration of a server, with help with provided migration scripts, and some hard-coded scripts to help synchronizing latest data, and permission fixing. All done well, and working fine now. However, all installation of services were default, and did not optimized for our needs. There are few aspect of tuning […]

Network monitoring with cacti – snmpd.conf

Network monitoring plays an important aspect in a system admin life. You will be managing some servers, and you might have problem taking care of their respective ‘health’, making sure its serving fine and performing best of it. There are some monitoring tool, for example, mrtg, nagios, cacti. For our setup, we are utilizing cacti, […]

Google Search for Malware and Viruses

There was an article I found in my surfing time about viruses, from PcWorld, Google Binary Search help Identify Malware. Google have a little-known capability to search binaries, that will be useful to search malware and virus binaries across the internet. This google hacks have been implemented by metasploit research team, to provide a good […]

SSH Quick login, without password

This is a techniques that enables you to login into a remote Linux machine without having any password challenge. You can immediately logged in your remote linux machine, with a single ssh command. This technique requires a pair of keys, generated on your local machine. The public key will be placed in the remote machine, […]