Cybersecurity in the Age of the Machine
Your users want to access a web server instance as a staging or production environment for DevOps… They want access to the web server document root of the sites they manage. Your job is to maintain the integrity of the whole system in terms of cyber security.
If you happen to be running a web server on Linux—for example in EC2 on Amazon AWS—and need to provide site owners remote access in a secure and responsible manner, here is how to do it.
Some WordPress installations stubbornly refuse requests for a password reset link, showing the user this error message instead:
The email could not be sent. Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function.
WordPress’ error massage is anything but insightful. The underlying cause usually involves SELinux. Let us introduce you to an easy fix that does not involve plug-ins or external email services. Buckle up.
[updated 2018-06-12] As browser makers continue their push for HTTPS and mobile applications are becoming the target of MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, cloud developers and administrators are scrambling to find affordable SSL certificates that can live up to the demands of the cloud era. Enter Let’s Encrypt, a new Certificate Authority that is open, fully automated, and free to use, with an almost unprecedented, generous allotment of 100 host names per certificate. Let’s Encrypt delivers on the promise of a worry-free, fully encrypted web 3.0. Cloud Insidr lifts the veil off of Let’s Encrypt’s setup, configuration, its few surprises and hidden gems.
Installing PHP on the Red Hat family—Fedora, RHEL, CentOS 7—is a must for cyber security and it’s not rocket science. With a few easy steps, you too can bring your PHP based web applications to the next level.
The setup of the LEMP stack (NGINX, MariaDB or MySQL, and PHP) has many caveats which can impact both performance and security. Here is how to do it right.