The Hacker’s Blog

The modification of website URLs is a common method of unauthorized entrance into a website. URLs can be modified and manipulated to perform different tasks. URLs like this may be abnormally long or contain strange characters, maybe even another character set. These URLs would take advantage of a security hole allowing access into the website or server. (more…)

Snort is an Intrusion Detection System commonly used on Linux computers and servers. It contains a set of rules that it uses to verify all activity on the computer. I will be using Ubuntu for this installation. (more…)

This paper will cover the basics of securing PHP. It will first explain how you can use the php.ini file to set secure defaults for PHP. A brief description of how to prevent SQL injections follows. The paper is wrapped up with a description of Suhosin, a secure or hardened patch for PHP. (more…)