The vim text editor is one of the most popular terminal-based editors. Its richness of commands and flexibility allows users to code at the speed of thought. Vim provides many commands that sometimes have overlapping functionalities. These functionalities are not…
In this article we discuss the function and usage of the chroot command in Linux with examples. What is the chroot command? The chroot command changes the apparent root directory of the current process as well as its child processes.…
In this tutorial we’ll install LetsEncrypt on Nginx web server on a Debian machine. What is LetsEncrypt? LetsEncrypt is a not-for-profit certificate authority providing digital certificates for secure connections enabling HTTPS for websites and services. Certificates can be automatically obtained,…
Sometimes, we need a quick HTTP server, either for testing purposes or transferring files. Setting up an Apache server might prove to be too much work for something trivial. Thus it is really handy to have a bunch of one…
A zip bomb, also known as a decompression bomb or zip of death is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. It is one of the oldest “malicious files” going around…
In this tutorial, we see how we connect to GitHub with SSH on your server, for transferring data securely over GitHub. SSH or Secure Shell Protocol provides a secure way of accessing to another client It encrypts the data transferred…