Security isn’t just a technical issue 鈥?it’s a people problem. Many low-level mistakes are surprisingly often made by those who should know better: system administrators or other IT staff. Intermedia’s 2015 Insider Risk Report found that IT professionals are the most likely to carry out&ldq …
Despite strong opposition from many Linux users towards Microsoft, the company is actually a significant contributor to the Linux kernel. Although it once looked down on Linux, times have changed. In addition to recruiting open-source experts, the company has even contributed to the world’s most popular Linux derivative (Android …
As the best GPU-accelerated hash cracking software available today, Hashcat is touted as the world’s fastest, “supporting up to 8 billion password guesses per second.” In the early hours of December 5 (Beijing time), Hashcat’s author “atom” announced the tool would go open-source. Hashcat is a GPU-based H …
The error “session object destruction failed in [path]” is generally caused by incorrect permissions on the session save directory. How to Fix:
1. Locate session.save_path = "path" in php.ini, and grant the IIS user Read, Write, and Modify permissions to that directory.
2. …
Modern mainstream CPUs all support virtualization technology, but some computers ship with CPU virtualization disabled by default in the BIOS. So, how do we enable CPU virtualization? Let’s walk through the detailed steps below. 1. First, check whether your computer’s CPU supports virtualization technology…
2015 graphics card performance rankings from Master Lu benchmark, comparing NVIDIA and AMD GPUs across different price segments.
Chinese tags in WordPress generally won’t cause 404 errors on Linux, but they might on Windows systems. No way around it—this still needs to be fixed! Besides, the VPS Guide site has already been upgraded to WordPress latest version 4.1, while most search results are still about version 3.0, and …
Alibaba Cloud Shield provides cloud customers with free 5G attack protection, capable of defending against Layer 3 to Layer 7 DDoS attacks such as SYN Flood, UDP Flood, ACK Flood, ICMP Flood, DNS Flood, and CC attacks. The specific configuration method is as follows:
1. Open www.aliyun.com, click Management Console, and log in to your member account. …
Alibaba Cloud Shield can protect against Layer 3 to Layer 7 DDoS attacks such as SYN Flood, UDP Flood, ACK Flood, ICMP Flood, DNS Flood, and CC attacks. The setup method is as follows:
1. Open www.aliyun.com and click the Management Console to log in to your member account. 2. Click Cloud Shield Management Console on the left, then click …
I migrated two websites to Alibaba Cloud — one reason being Alibaba Cloud’s stability, and the other being its supposedly impressive Cloud Shield. Previously, in a blog alliance group, we simulated a CC attack against a blog hosted on an Alibaba Cloud ECS instance. The result? Cloud Shield showed no reaction whatsoever, while the website had already gone down. This time, I deliberately took a closer look at the CC protection features in Cloud Shield …
