The security blog KrebsOnSecurity.com is back online after Google is taking over the role of providing protection to the site from DDoS attacks. Google is protecting the site under the service called Project Shield. Project Shield states it’s purpose is to protect news sites and other free expression sites from attacks. The service is offered […]
The command to run to shutdown MariaDB/MySQL database: service mysql stop To restart MariaDB/MySQL database: service mysql restart
A leading security blog has been taken offline temporary because of a record DDoS attack on the site. KrebsOnSecurity.com is temporary not available due to a large DDoS attack that is believed to be caused by one or more organizations that offer DDoS attack services for hire. KrebsOnSecurity recently reported on an organization that offer […]
Yahoo! was hacked sometime in 2014. If you have or ever had a Yahoo! user account. You should immediately change the password. Yahoo! thinks at least 500 million accounts were breached. Information that was obtained by the hackers include: names, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of births, hashed passwords, and possibly some security questions and […]
Logging in as the root MySQL/MariaDB user: If you use MySQL/MariaDB and want to login to the database via the command line. The commands to execute via your SSH terminal session is: mysql -u root -p You will be prompted for your root MySQL/MariaDB password. After you enter your password and hit enter. You should […]
There are two ways to interact with your MySQL/MariaDB database. The first is via a graphical user interface (GUI) such as phpMyAdmin which works with both MySQL and MariaDB. The second way to interact with the database is via the command line. We are going to show you how to delete a database from the […]
If your web host uses Cpanel (good chance they do) then this article will give you a quick explanation of what each of the icons under the Mail section inside your Cpanel control panel does. Email Accounts – If you click on the Email Accounts icon it will lead you to a page to create […]
Question: Will installing a lot of different scripts on my server slow it down? Answer: Yes, if you install many different scripts on your server that you do not use. It will contribute to slowing down your server over a period of time. The resources on your server includes: memory, hard drive, and processing power. […]
The command to run inside a MySQL/Maria database to rename the table. You can run the following command from within the phpMyAdmin interface or via the console. RENAME TABLE old_name TO new_name
Secure-24, a managed application web hosting provider has announced that so far for the first half of 2016. The company experienced a 86% year-over-year in bookings so far. Secure-24 experienced growth in providing solutions for customers that used: SAP HANA, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Microsoft, and Hyperion software. Full press release: Secure-24 Reports 84 […]