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How to Harden Windows Server 2012 R2 with CIS Benchmark Guidelines — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden Windows Server 2012 R2 with CIS Benchmark Guidelines

How to Harden Windows Server 2012 R2 with CIS Benchmark Guidelines The Center for Internet Security (CIS) publishes detailed hardening benchmarks for every major operating system, including Windows Server 2012 R2. Implementing the CIS Benchmark reduces your attack surface by disabling unnecessary services, tightening authentication policies, restricting dangerous protocols, and ensuring audit logging captures security-relevant […]

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Understanding Maps in Go — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Maps in Go

Most modern programming languages have the concept of a dictionary or a hash type. These types are commonly used to store data in pairs with a key that maps to a value. In Go, the map is what most programmers would think of as the dictionary type. It maps keys to values, making key-value pairs that are a useful way to store data in Go. Understand how Go maps work in this article.

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SLES 15 — ruby2.5-rubygem-sprockets — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — ruby2.5-rubygem-sprockets — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 August 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:1994-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-3760 Upstream summary: There is an information leak vulnerability in Sprockets. Versions Affected: 4.0.0.beta7 and lower, 3.7.1 and lower, 2.12.4 and lower. Specially crafted requests […]

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How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

This tutorial shows you how to set up a new directory, how to grant the correct permissions, how to add content to a new page, how to turn on virtual hosting, and how to, if needed, set up local hosts. Virtual Hosts are used to run more than one domain off of a single IP address and allows you to run multiple sites off of a single cloud servers. This tutorial describes how to set up virtual hosts with Apache.

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How to Set Up WireGuard VPN on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up WireGuard VPN on RHEL 7

How to Set Up WireGuard VPN on RHEL 7 WireGuard is a modern, high-performance VPN protocol built directly into the Linux kernel (from 5.6 onward) and available as a DKMS module on older kernels like those shipped with RHEL 7. Compared to OpenVPN and IPsec, WireGuard has a dramatically smaller codebase, faster handshake times, and […]

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How To Install Joomla on a Virtual Server Running CentOS 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Joomla on a Virtual Server Running CentOS 6

This tutorials covers a basic joomla installation on a centos server. Joomla is a free and open source content management that uses a PHP and a backend database, such as MySQL. It offers a wide variety of features that make it an incredibly flexible content management system right out of the box. It was created in 2005 and is currently the 2nd most popular content management site online. It now has over 10,000 addons to customize its functionality.

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Установка и обеспечение безопасности phpMyAdmin в Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка и обеспечение безопасности phpMyAdmin в Ubuntu 18.04

Предыдущая версия данного руководства была написана Бреннаном Бернсом. Хотя многим пользователям требуются функциональные возможности систем управления базами данных, например, MySQL, им может показаться неудобным…

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Oracle Linux 8 — python3.11-pip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — python3.11-pip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-6914)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 8 August 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-6914 Related CVEs: CVE-2007-4559 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Exception Handling in Java — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Exception Handling in Java

Introduction An _exception_ is an error event that can happen during the execution of a program and disrupts its normal flow. Java provides a robust and object-oriented way to handle exception scenarios known as Java Exception Handling. Exceptions in Java can arise from different kinds of situations such as wrong data entered by the user, […]

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