Hi, my name is Jan. I am not a hacker, coder, developer or guru. I am merely an application manager / systems administrator, doing my daily thing at Embrace - The Human Cloud. In the past I worked at CLDIN (CLouDINfra) and Vevida. With over 20 years of experience, my specialties include Windows Server, IIS, Linux (CentOS, Debian), security, PHP, websites & optimization. I blog at https://www.saotn.org.
Securing privileged access is a critical first step to establishing security assurances for business assets in a modern organization. The security of most or all business assets in an IT organization depends on the integrity of the privileged accounts used to administer, manage, and develop. Cyber-attackers often target these accounts and other elements of privileged access to gain access to data and systems using credential theft attacks
In recent days, there are a number of reports about broken Yoast SEO database operations, related to the DeleteDuplicateIndexables function. The PHP function is located in the file wordpress-seo\src\config\migrations\20200507054848_DeleteDuplicateIndexables.php, and in this post I'll provide you with a possible fix for this statement. Read on.
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Use PowerShell to find vulnerable WordPress plugin versions hosted on your Windows Server IIS webserver fast, because new vulnerabilities are found on a daily basis. On Windows Server, PowerShell is a perfect tool for this job!
It's recommended to disallow access to and execution of PHP files in wp-content/uploads folder. Preferably without the use of a security plugin. Blocking access to PHP files in WordPress wp-content/uploads folder is easily achieved with a .htaccess file on Linux Apache, or web.config accesssPolicy in Windows Server IIS, and here is how. Secure your WordPress site with this simple, yet effective, tip!
Create a random string in Bash easily. You can use this Bash function in your .bashrc file to generate a random string of alphanumeric characters. This comes in handy when you need to generate a long, secure password for example. Adjust to your needs.
Create effective WMI filters for Group Policy to have a more granular control on specific versions of Windows Server. In this post I provide some basic WMI filter examples to use with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
Basic Authentication managed HTTP module for IIS 10 with virtual users support. In my pursuit of a basic authentication alternative in IIS, other than the built-in Basic Authentication module or Helicon Ape, I came across Devbridge AzurePowerTools. It's apparently one of few HTTP managed modules for IIS that enables HTTP Basic Authentication with support for virtual users.
Remove phantom application folders from websites in IIS using PowerShell where the physical path on the filesystem was removed. E.g when the application folder "/test1" in the website example.com should point to z:\sites\example.com\www\test1 but was removed. Here is now.
Here is how to change Akismet interval to three (3) days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments, using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter in your WordPress functions.php