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Magento

Finding Malicious Code on Magento

The first thing to do is check your site from an outside perspective, as any other black hatter would do. The Frontend scan Use Magescan: ./magescan scan:all <site> This scan will usually tell you what patches will be applied. First thing to do would be to patch them immediately. Next thing is to check if […]

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Magento 2

Should I Upgrade to Magento 2?

Magento 2 has been around for more than a year now and many store owners are looking for something new to enhance their offerings. Developers have also heard about the numerous enhancements and would be no doubt looking to try it out. Well I have been trying out for the past few weeks on a […]

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ubuntu

Why port you opened on Azure is still blocked?

You can check your specific ports nmap -sV -Pn -p 80,8080 192.168.1.0 If it says filtered then the port is open in the azure side but clocked on the server side. You need to enable it with sudo ufw allow 8080

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Server

Top Performance and Security tools for your server

Sometimes it is hard securing and making sure your server is running at peak performance. Why not use some tools to tell you what settings to tweak… Lynis – Server security suggestions MySqltuner – MySQL Database recommendations and suggestions ApacheBuddy – Performance suggestions for Apache 2

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Rest

Building a Proper REST API with authentication

Authentication First thing we need to be clear about is your method of authentication means nothing if you are not using https. If you are not using https then your users credentials can be snooped. What is REST? TL;DR Cheat sheet Representation State Transfer Resource based we are talking about thing(nouns) instead of actions(verbs) resource is […]