Last year PCI DSS 1.2 was released changing the intent of the controls required for anti-virus software. In version 1.1 anti-virus software was only required for systems commonly affected by viruses and excluded UNIX based operating systems and mainframes. Version 1.2 now requires all operating system types commonly affected by malicious software be protected and [...]

The dedicated team at InterWorx has released Hosting Control Panel 4.1.0. This is the first release of the 4.x series that will be automatically applied to all current InterWorx servers, versions 3 and higher. All InterWorx servers that have auto-updates enabled can and should receive this update.

The easiest way to learn Linux permissions is from an example. The ls -l command generates a list of contents, such as files along with their permissions. Let’s take a look at the default values for a file called Filename. We are adding spaces to make the output more legible.

Build Your Own Debian/Ubuntu LAMP Server – Quick & Easy Do it Yourself Installation Apache 2 – Linux Web server MySQL 5 – MySQL Database Server PHP4/5 – PHP Scripting Language phpMyAdmin – Web-based database admin software. Note: Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl together commonly known as LAMP Server.

This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line.

Simple linux command to search all files in a given path and display the line in the file which matches defined content. find <PATH> -print | xargs grep "<CONTENT>" or find <PATH> -type f -exec grep -H "<CONTENT>" \;