About server monitoring (with Netdata) as a way to detect malicious activities, a real case of a compromised domain and decoding backdoor payloads

The backdoor was planted in /wp-includes/ and the filename started with a dot in an attempt to hide the file .query.php

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Follow-up Facebook Shops and some extra thoughts about social media

Today my Facebook news-feed was like in the picture below, what I wrote more than a year ago actually happened My opinion about Facebook Shops: Facebook Shops will only dilute even more the news feed. This reveals 2 issues, on both sides of the system: Facebook still does whatever it wants to do. As there is no […]

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Ransomware - about the attack, protection methods and best practices

The methods to counteract this type of attack presuppose the existence of backup and disaster recovery systems that are well established and functional.

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How much time does it take the update of statistics from Search Console?

Almost one month. I did an experiment. Having some pages on a well indexed domain with multiple daily visits from GoogleBot. Initially with a red CLS so the pages were "poor URL", let it stabilize, then modified the pages to orange CLS so the pages went to "URLs need improvement" Update done on 27.04.2021 was visible in Search Console on 17-18.05.2021. I […]

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Virtualmin setup on VPS from OVH running Ubuntu 18.04

Step by step tutorial for Virtualmin installation on VPS running Ubuntu 18.04.

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MySQL database management with a single PHP file

When you need to update fast someting in a database but you only have FTP access you can use Adminer. Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Adminer is available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL,Oracle, Firebird, SimpleDB, Elasticsearch and MongoDB. Download here.

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