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Analysing an attack from WordPress Hello Dolly plugin

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date April 22, 2016
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You might notice a heavy CPU usage consumption on your machine. Some may be a natural cause, for example, a known script being executed at a specific time whilst others may be due to a simple attack. Even if the [Read More…]

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KIWI – Cross-distro images on the cloud with OpenSUSE

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date April 3, 2016
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Rest assured, Kiwi is neither a bird nor a fruit in the OpenSUSE world! Kiwi is an open source project licensed under the the GPLv2 and it is written in Perl. The project is sponsored by SUSE to build OS [Read More…]

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Converting a deb into rpm using alien on openSUSE

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date March 29, 2016
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The alien command is used by almost all system administrators. You might come across situations where you may need to install a .deb package on an OpenSUSE machine. You will need to convert it to a .rpm prior to doing [Read More…]

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Installing and configuring OpenVAS on OpenSUSE Leap

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date March 19, 2016
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“openSUSE Leap is a brand new way of building openSUSE and is new type of hybrid Linux distribution. Leap uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines [Read More…]

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Configure your LVM via Ansible

Post Author By Nitin J Mutkawoa
Post Date March 8, 2016
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Some days back, I gave some explanations about LVM such as creations of LVM partitions and a detailed analogy of the LVM structure as well as tips for using PVMOVE. We can also automate such task using the power of [Read More…]