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GDPR - Security of Personal Data Processing - Free PDF by ENISA A very useful handbook to help understanding how to comply with the personal data security requirements issued by the GDPR

March 10, 2018July 27, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

Good news for those who are striving to adapt their corporate procedures to the new European General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR. The ENISA (European Union Agency for …

Cyber Security / Web

Qualys Webcast - Prioritization of Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment A complimentary webcast offered by Josh Zelonis and Jimmy Graham of Qualys, Inc. - March 14 2018, 7:00 PM CET

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

If you want to keep track of what's happening in terms of IT security these days, you can hardly miss Qualys: not only for the free and premium services they …

Android / Cyber Security / Mobile Devices / Operating Systems / Web

What are Advertising IDs and how are they compromising our Privacy?

February 17, 2018March 11, 2018 - by Mark Hascole - Leave a Comment

Those times are gone when advertising was limited to print and out of door mediums were the only mediums to get the message across about the product or service. Many …

Cyber Security / Hardware / Operating Systems / Web

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Security Guidelines

January 28, 2018 - by Kiran Trivedi - Leave a Comment

The striking articulation "Work from wherever" is quickly transforming into a standard for an impressive measure of organizations. We have gone into the mobile usage first, cloud usage first, where …

Cyber Security / Operating Systems / Software

Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities: what you need to know

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In the past 24 hours, two critical flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs were publicly released to the public. Both of them were originally discovered last year by Google’s Project …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

How to create a self-signed TLS SSL certificate for Apache or NGINX to accept HTTPS requests on port 443 A handy guide explaining how to create a self-signed SSL certificate for your NGINX or Apache web site with Linux CentOS 7.x to accept HTTPS requests on port 443

December 17, 2017June 18, 2019 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this article we'll show you how to create a self-signed TLS/SSL certificate and configure it in Apache or Nginx web server to allow secure, encrypted connections. This tutorial will …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

NGINX Rate Limiting: how to protect your web site from HTTP request flood, DoS and brute-force attacks

December 17, 2017November 5, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

We already talked a number of times of Nginx, allegedly one of the best web server, load balancers and HTTP accelerators out there these days. Among its most useful, but …

Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script

December 17, 2017December 17, 2017 - by Ryan - 5 Comments.

Everyone who wants to make his WordPress web site more secure should definitely spend at least one hour of his life reading the Hardening WordPress chapter of the WP official …

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

How to secure VSFTPD FTP Server using a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate in CentOS 7 - FTPS

December 16, 2017December 17, 2017 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

In this previous post we explained how to install and configure a FTP server in Linux CentOS 7 using the popular VSFTPD open-source package. As we have clarified there, the File …

IIS - How to setup the web.config file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io)

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

Apache - How to setup the httpd.conf file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io) How to setup the httpd.conf to secure all your Apache-hosted websites with the required HTTP Security Headers and get A rate from securityheaders.io scan.

November 22, 2017March 17, 2019 - by Ryan - 8 Comments.

We already explained the basics about HTTP Security Headers in this previous post: it's now time to put these concepts into action and implement them within our Apache-based web site …