After having looked after a number of WordPress websites over the last 7 years or so it has become apparent that the number of brute force attacks specifically targeting WordPress is increasing. I know it isn’t a matter of if one of these attacks succeeded but when. This tutorial won’t completely get rid of all […]
Well, after my last tutorial about getting a LEMP server on Ubuntu 11.10 I’m very happy to announce that the process is now a heck…
After spending a crazy amount of time trying to find something up to date regarding network security and host to host VPN I decided to…
Moving databases between one MySQL server and another isn’t always easy, especially if you’re migrating database servers from one server to another. Imagine for this…
Sometimes blocking entire swathes of the world is the way to go if you truly want a defense in depth approach on your web apps,…
Having multiple interfaces on a server helps for a variety of reasons, and recently I had to get a server (a Sun Micrososystems X4100 incidentally),…
I’ve recently sat my CISSP exam and passed! Very happy with the result, now all I need to do is sort out the paper work. …
Some common and overarching themes within the CISSP CBK. Collected here as an additional to revision.
Access Control, one of the core and more important parts of the CISSP.
Business Continuity and Disaster Planning, what do we do when it all doesn’t quite go to plan?