Silicon Technix

There is a worldwide, highly-distributed WordPress attack that is ongoing on most of the WordPress powered blogs.

The following steps can be used to secure (by password protection) wp-login.php for all WordPress sites in your cPanel account:
How to Password Protect the wp-login.php File
There are two (2) steps in accomplishing this. First you need to define a password in the .wpadmin file, and then you activate the security in the .htaccess file. Read the rest of this entry

Attack from just 49 IPs and 48,000 servers (Linux/HP Unix) boot records were deleted in South Korea (20-March-2013), including servers at major (4) Banks and (3) TV stations.

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I thought I had carefully controlled what other people I choose to share my photos and my personal information with me on my Facebook and I was really careful about what third-party Facebook applications I allow to have access to personal details such as my birthday, my status updates, my photos, my location and educational and work history but I was WRONG until today. Read the rest of this entry

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
my $ifile = shift;
my $blank = 0;
my $indent = 2;
open(IFILE, "$ifile") or die "Cannot open $ifile\n";
while(my $line = ) {
  if($line =~ /^\s*else/i
     or $line =~ /^\s*end/i
    ) {  #reduce indent before xxx
    $blank = $blank - 2;
  }
  if($blank > 0) {
    print " " x $blank;  #print several blanks
    print "$line";
  } else {
    print "$line";
    $blank = 0;
  }
  if($line =~ /^\s*if/i
     or $line =~ /^\s*else/i
     or $line =~ /^\s*loop/i
    ) {  #increase indent after xxx
    $blank = $blank + 2;
  }
}

MySQL replication is quite straight forward. Here are the setup steps: Read the rest of this entry

Growl is very good tool for local and remote notifications, we can compare it with libnotify in Linux plus growl is already available on multiple platforms, So now I want to use it with Microsoft Outlook to notify me when new email arrives, but unfortunately there is no Add-on available for growl after Outlook 2007 onwards, so I did the work for myself, basically it is too simple to write a procedure in VBA for Office (Macros) but the only drawback is that you need to allow macros (security involved) OR sign it with Digital Certificate (money involved) Read the rest of this entry