Posts Tagged Tutoiral
Install and Configure a Ubuntu 11.04 Snort-MySQL Honeypot
Posted by Tyler Allen in Tutorial on August 9, 2011
An Intrusion Detection system is like a burglar alarm for your computer. It monitors you network and system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and reports to some kind of management station. This is great as it lets you know who were when & how people are trying to break into your network and knowing this is half the battle. You may be thinking that this isn’t enough and you want to block all hacks from happening, well most IDS systems include some “Network Intrusion Prevention” features. However the main concern should be closing up vulnerabilities rather than blocking someone already trying to hack your systems, after all it’s a bit late if they are already in your system, and this way you may accedently block innocent users.
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MySQL Backup (mysqldump)
Posted by Tyler Allen in Short on March 3, 2011
There are plenty of ways of backing up MySQL, however my personal preference is to use MySQL dump, here’s how you do it: Read the rest of this entry »
Hosting Multiple Websites with apache2
Posted by Tyler Allen in Tutorial on February 18, 2011
Hosting Multiple sites can be extremely beneficial, why have a separate server for each of your websites when you could combine them all onto one server. Now granted, if your website is using most of your server load then its probably not a good idea to put more websites onto this server. However most sites, especially static sites, will not require there own dedicated server.
When you buy web space from a provider like 123-reg.com you are not getting a dedicated server for your website, instead you are buying a Virtual Host, that is web space shared with others on a single server, and this works in the same way we are going to discuss in this tutoiral. So if you want to setup your own hosting company listen closely 
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MySQL MD5 User Password
Posted by Tyler Allen in Short on January 25, 2011
When you have a user’s table in your database it is bad practice to store user passwords within this table in plain text, the problem with this if anyone managed to hack your database or a mischievous employ looks at the table then they will be able to see everyone’s password.
However if we store the passwords using the MD5 Hash Function then it’s impossible to see the password, however all we can do is encrypt the users password and see if it matched the stored MD5 Function, so how do we do this: Read the rest of this entry »
Setup an IDS with Snort & MySQL
Posted by Tyler Allen in Tutorial on September 8, 2010
An Intrusion Detection system is like a burglar alarm for your computer. It monitors you network and system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and reports to some kind of Management Station. This is great as it lets your know who where when & how people are trying to break into your network, and knowing this is half the battle. You may be thinking that this isn’t enough and you want to block all hacks from happening, well most IDS systems include some “Network Intrusion Prevention” features. However the main concern should be closing up vulnerabilities rather then blocking someone already trying to hack your systems ,after all its a bit late if they are already in your system, and this way you may block any innocent users.
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