by Richard W | Oct 4, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Web, Windows, Wordpress
If you’ve been here over the last few month, you’d noticed the many changes that this blog has gone through. We’ve changed domain providers, switched web servers, switched host providers, changed WordPress themes and WordPress caching plugins. All of...
by Richard W | Oct 1, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Since we’re all humans and we do forget at times, this brief tutorial is going to show you how to reset or recovery a forgotten users or root password on Ubuntu 14.04. We wrote the same tutorial for CentOS 7 users which was well received so we decided to write...
by Richard W | Sep 24, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Sometimes you forget stuff. I do. I forget important passwords for important websites sometimes. Retrieving your forgotten passwords for most websites is easy, all one has to do remember few details that were used when signing up for the service to get a password...
by Richard W | Sep 23, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
Few weeks ago we showed you how to install VSFTPD in Ubuntu. We also said because FTP implemented in its standard form is inherently insecure, it’s recommended to enable FTP over SSL/TLS encryption or secure FTP (SFTP). This brief tutorial is going to show you...
by Richard W | Sep 22, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Web
It seems like HTTPS is the future now that Google is recommending that all websites be encrypted with SSL over HTTP. If you haven’t heard, Google announced that websites and webpages that are encrypted will rank higher than those that are not when people search...
by Richard W | Sep 18, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Few weeks ago we showed you how to install ProFTPD in Ubuntu 14.04 and also said that by design, the FTP protocol is inherently insecure. If you have to implement FTP on your servers, you should opt for a secure FTP or SFTP. This brief tutorial is going to show you...
