Bash ShellShock – The Best Ways to Check if You Are Vulnerable.

 How to check your servers for Bash ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) ShellShock, what a fitting name. The latest major headache for Sys Admins, Developers…well pretty much anyone who has a*nix system... Read more

How to Transfer Files Between Two Computers using nc and pv Commands

Hi fellow Linux readers, I’m bringing you yet another great article from our Linux Tips and Tricks series, this time we will be using two lesser known Linux utilities that... Read more

How to Use GPG Keys to Send Encrypted Messages

How to Use GPG Keys to Send Encrypted Messages What is GnuPG? GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), also known as GPG, is a tool for secure communication that was created by... Read more

Download a Local Copy of your Linode Backup

Download a Local Copy of your Linode Backup The Linode Backups service can create automatic and manual snapshots of your Linode. A completed backup can be directly restored to the... Read more

10 Useful Commands to Collect System and Hardware Information in Linux

It is always a good practice to know the hardware components of your Linux system is running on, this helps you to deal with compatibility issues when it comes to... Read more

How to use a YubiKey for Two-Factor Secure Shell Authentication

How to use a YubiKey for Two-Factor Secure Shell Authentication What is Yubikey? YubiKeys are small USB dongles that you can plug into your computer. They can simulate keyboard input,... Read more

How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Ubuntu 18.04 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release that will be supported by Canonical until April 2023. This guide shows how... Read more

10 Lesser Known Effective Linux Commands – Part IV

Continuing the Lesser Known series, this fourth article of the series will let you know some useful funny and animated commands. Here we go into the practical session, without much... Read more

Progress – A Tiny Tool to Monitor Progress for (cp, mv, dd, tar, etc.) Commands in Linux

Progress, formerly known as Coreutils Viewer, is a light C command that searches for coreutils basic commands such as cp, mv, tar, dd, gzip/gunzip, cat, grep etc currently being executed... Read more

How To Install the Microsoft Administration Pack for IIS 7

In this article, we’re going to provide hosters with all the information about how to utilize the Microsoft Administration Pack in their hosting operations and settings. The screenshot below represents... Read more