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Some useful netstat commands

These are pretty useful for quick checks on suspicious looking traffic on your Linux server

Cloudfare bug led to sensitive data being leaked and indexed by search engines

A simple missing piece of a C routine led to a buffer overflow and what's techincally known as 'a total disaster'

Apache HTTP to HTTPS redirects don't need to be painful!

A lot of information out there on the web suggests using mod_rewrite but an easier way exists

Laravel 5.4 released

The latest version of the PHP framework is released

NHS email system hit with 500,000,000 emails due to admin error

The NHS email system was swamped with half a billion emails due to no failsafes from IT contractor

ElasticSearch now being targeted by hackers

The search software is now being targeted by ransomware hackers

Thousands of MongoDB installations being hacked

The popular open-source NoSQL database is coming under criticism for its insecure default setup

Google Chrome to warn about non-HTTPS forms

At the end of this month Google's Chrome browser update will include a 'Not secure' warning

Converting PHP's deprecated mysql_ functions to mysqli

It's 2016 and nobody should be talking about the mysql api, but I'm going to...

How did the denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down Twitter, Netflix and Github work?

We'll take a look at what took these services offline, how it did it and why it's bit of a worry for the future.