Linux

If you have a dedicated server or a VPS, chances are you are the only Administrator/root user who needs to maintain it from SSH or command line. That means, you also get a *hitload of email alerts from your server about botnets trying to access your servers SSH port. There’s …

The Pentbox is a safety kit containing various tools for streamlining PenTest conducting a job easily. It is programmed in Ruby and oriented to GNU / Linux, with support for Windows, MacOS and every systems where Ruby is installed. In this small article we will explain how to set up …

I got a long password with a passphrase that contains some numbers. So when I type in my password, I instinctively use NumPad to type it in. Guess what? Kali Linux doesn’t enable NumLock by default on startup. So I press Enter and it says I entered wrong password. This …

This is something I need quite often when I setup a new VPS or Virtual Machine in the cloud. I use multiple cloud infrastructures that includes Azure, Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, CloudatCost and InterServer. All of them has pre-set Virtual Machine or ISO that you can simply deploy using a few …

I’ve compiled a list of handy MySQL commands that I use very frequently  in a headless server. I am not a MySQL guru, so I decided to braindump everything in here. This covers random issues from WordPress slowness, Query Cache Modification, User Creation, Database dumping and importing, rsync’ing large files …