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Windows Server 2012 R2 — WSUS metadata corruption prevents clients from downloading approved updates — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 October 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]

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How to Configure DB2 HADR on IBM AIX 7.1 — step-by-step IBM AIX 7.1 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DB2 HADR on IBM AIX 7.1

Introduction IBM AIX 7.1 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.1 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to configure db2 hadr on ibm aix 7.1 on IBM […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php-suhosin — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php-suhosin — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php — open_basedir Race Condition Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-5178 Upstream summary: Stefan Esser reports: PHP's open_basedir feature is meant to disallow scripts to access files outside a set of configured […]

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How to Set Up OpenMPI on IBM AIX 7.2 — step-by-step IBM AIX 7.2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up OpenMPI on IBM AIX 7.2

Introduction IBM AIX 7.2 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.2 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to set up openmpi on ibm aix 7.2 on IBM […]

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How to Configure SSL/TLS with OpenSSL on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SSL/TLS with OpenSSL on FreeBSD 12

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure SSL/TLS with OpenSSL on FreeBSD 12 on FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained […]

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How To Set Up a Node Project With Typescript — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Node Project With Typescript

Writing server-side JavaScript can be challenging as a codebase grows. TypeScript is a typed (optional) super-set of JavaScript that can help with building and managing large-scale JavaScript projects. It can be thought of as JavaScript with additional features like strong static typing, compilation and object oriented programming. This tutorial will explore how to use the [Express](https://expressjs.com/) framework with TypeScript.

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SLES 15 — u2f-host — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — u2f-host — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 October 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:1340-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20340 Upstream summary: Yubico libu2f-host 1.1.6 contains unchecked buffers in devs.c, which could enable a malicious token to exploit a buffer overflow. An attacker could […]

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How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04

Fail2ban is a daemon that can be run on your server to dynamically block clients that fail to authenticate correctly with your services repeatedly. This can help mitigate the affect of brute force attacks and illegitimate users of your services. In this guide, we’ll show demonstrate how to install and configure fail2ban to protect SSH and Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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How to Set Up LVM Logical Volume Management on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up LVM Logical Volume Management on Debian 9

Introduction How to Set Up LVM Logical Volume Management on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from […]

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