How To Use Styling in React Native Apps
A short guide to get you up to speed on how to style a React Native app if you’re coming over from CSS.
Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu
Learn how to securely set up a new Ubuntu server with user accounts, SSH keys, firewall rules, and basic hardening steps.
openSUSE Tumbleweed — mpop — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read • Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SA:2007:036 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2007-1558 Upstream summary: The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted […]
How to Configure Windows Server 2019 for Azure Hybrid Benefit
How to Configure Windows Server 2019 for Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing benefit that allows organizations to use their existing on-premises Windows Server licenses with active Software Assurance (SA) to run Windows Server virtual machines on Azure at a reduced cost. For Windows Server 2019 environments, this benefit can dramatically reduce […]
How To Install WordPress, Nginx, PHP, and Varnish on Ubuntu 12.04
Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on the server itself if there is a need for an active process. This tutorial covers installing wordpress on a LEMP stack (with nginx instead of apache), and then installing varnish.
Gentoo Linux — app-arch/lrzip — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202005-01 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8842 CVE-2017-8843 CVE-2017-8844 CVE-2017-8845 CVE-2017-8846 CVE-2017-8847 CVE-2017-9928 CVE-2017-9929 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Long Range ZIP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table […]
FreeBSD 12 — kdelibs-nocups — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kdelibs — integer overflow in khtml Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0396 CVE-2006-4811 Upstream summary: Red Hat reports: An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Qt handled pixmap images. The KDE […]
FreeBSD 12 — mod_security — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: www/mod_security — NULL pointer dereference DoS Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1915 CVE-2013-2765 Upstream summary: SecurityFocus reports: When ModSecurity receives a request body with a size bigger than the value set by the […]
How To Design Template Pages with Twig on a VPS
Twig is a very good alternative to the PHPTemplate way of building the presentation logic of a web application as it is represents a much cleaner templating experience. In this respect, it comes with a very easy to understand syntax and restricts you from performing dynamic PHP operations in template files.
How to Create an Immutable Class in Java
Learn how to define immutable classes in Java, why immutability matters, and how to build thread-safe, robust applications using immutable objects.
