It has been known that advertising network has been used as a medium for malware writers to reach out to massive users base easily. They can simply inject the malicious URL into the system, making any website serving the ads will be serving the malicious links as well. Last a few weeks, I had my […]
Lately my server is receiving many request for wordpress brute-force attempts. Some of them do slow us down. The server resources were just wasted for the request. So, some searches got me to this site, which provide a good mod_security config to block this attack for a short period. http://www.frameloss.org/2011/07/29/stopping-brute-force-logins-against-wordpress/ This is just a snippet, […]
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 […]
Found this cool firefox addon, for blogging purpose. I always have the same problem from the very beginning, to capture the screenshot, crop it, and upload it to my blog. This add-on seems a good one to speed things up in sharing knowledge through our sites. This post might serve as my first test, to […]
Yesterday I spent some time to play around with Monowall. Monowall is an embedded firewall package, thats built from bare-bone version of FreeBSD. The whole package is really small, smaller than 12MB, it can fit into your CF card for your embedded project. I start to have a look into Monowall when my boss bring […]
While figuring out how to manage my pics, and easy insert into my blog post, I found this plugin. Picasa LigthBox 2. This plugin will retrieve our public pictures from picasa gallery, and have an easy interface to include them into our blog post. Besides, it provides a overlay preview to our users, using WordPress […]