So Nikto!!! By attempting any of the things listed in this blog post you accept full responsibility for your actions and I will not be held responsible whatsoever. This tutorial is strictly for penetration testers only. Is your site safe on the internet? Are you sure? Let’s make sure you are safe from hackers. Today we’ll divine into a tool which ...
Hey developers! I feel really good because I was able to pass 30,000 reputation points on StackOverflow. It wasn’t an easy task get 30K and I was working on this for 8+ years on and off. Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It is a privately held website, the flagship site of ...
I’m a big fan of APIs (I even wrote an article on REST API Architecture – Best Practices) because in any given enterprise application in today’s modern world, the API is considered to be one of the key success factors in digital transformation of any business. When you have multiple APIs being exposed and being accessed by a number of entities, there has ...
In today’s world, microservices architecture is taking over pretty much everything. The deployment mechanism that goes with microservers is containers. When you have a lot of containers in your application you need to have a platform to manage those containers. That’s where the Kubernetes comes into the picture. What is Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and ...
Happy 2019 folks! I thought of writing a different type of a blog post than another regular technical post this time because it’s a new year. As you know, I’m a software expert who works with the technology day in day out. Recently I got myself thinking about life of which I wanted to find the definition. I did ...
Indexes! Whooh! Let me tell you what my experience about indexing a table. I had a SQL query which took 8-9 secs to fetch the data I want. After indexing now it only takes 1 sec. Interesting right. Let’s go through what’s indexing and how to and when to and stuff. You could find technical explanation of indexes in ...
Connect to the WordPress database via the phpMyAdmin tool at your web hosting account. Once in phpMyAdmin select the WordPress database & Open the SQL tab (look at the top navigation bar). write the following SQL query: UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here‘ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username“; “new_password_here” – replace this with the new password you wish to ...
Let’s take a look at what’s regular expression and it’s use in the development environment. 1st of all regular expression is a small piece of code which looks for pattern(s). In web development environment Regex are used in the .htaccess file most frequently. Regexs are supposed to make developer’s life easier but most of the time it’s the other way ...
Add this code where you want to put the custom search. Settings : action – set the site url cat field value – should be set to the category id whatever you want to search in(here its 5)<form method="get" id="search form" action="http://localhost/wordpress_test/"> <div> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="hidden" value="5" name="ca
So you have a larger mySQL database of more than 30 MB size, you want to move it to a new server, and you’re unable to import your database to the new server via phpMyAdmin, due to its time and size limitations. But don’t worry, its not a big problem. It can be done using a tool BigDump Here are ...
Today’s blog post is fairly different from the blog posts that I have been writing. It’s about a public meetup that I did which was organized by ISC2 Colombo chapter. The topic was ‘Application High Availability for Operational Continuity’. No sooner the topic was selected I knew that It was an interesting topic for me and for the audience ;-) The ...
