Advantages of firewall: You can filter outbound traffic. Layer 7 firewalls (IPS) can protect against known application vulnerabilities. You can block a certain IP address range and/or port centrally rather than trying to ensure that there is no service listening on that port on each individual machine or denying access using TCP Wrappers. Firewalls can … Read more
WP-CLI is a command line interface to WP. So, it is used in a Unix shell environment. Plugins and themes are written in PHP (which itself also runs in a shell, usually Unix). So, to execute a WP-CLI command in a plugin you would have to pass it from PHP to the Unix shell. That … Read more
As a general rule, use REJECT when you want the other end to know the port is unreachable’ use DROP for connections to hosts you don’t want people to see. Usually, all rules for connections inside your LAN should use REJECT. For the Internet, With the exception of ident on certain servers, connections from the … Read more
You’ve certainly done your research… From all of my experience with ansible what you’re looking to accomplish, isn’t supported. As you mentioned, ansible states that it does not require passwordless sudo, and you are correct, it does not. But I have yet to see any method of using multiple sudo passwords within ansible, without of … Read more
There is no ‘core’ file in WP core files. So if there is such file, you don’t have access to it and it gets modified, then you should be really concerned. My guess would be that it’s some malware/backdoor script. And since it’s created by server script, then there is a chance you can’t access … Read more
The Windows (NT) kernel is designed to reserve the notification of this key combination to a single process: Winlogon. So, as long as the Windows installation itself is working as it should – no third party application can respond to this key combination (if it could, it could present a fake logon window and keylog … Read more
I would prefer the ssh-keygen -y -e -f <private key> way instead of the accepted answer of How do you test a public/private DSA keypair? on Stack Overflow. ssh-keygen -y -e -f <private key> takes a private key and prints the corresponding public key which can be directly compared to your available public keys. (Hint: … Read more
If you have checked your database entry of the page/article, you will see that it is a issue on Database side, or by any means there was restoring going on because of the crash, that could be an issue or a restoring plugin/script with a bug why a simple character as ‘ gets messed up. … Read more
A Docker image bundles application and “platform”, that’s correct. But usually the image is composed of a base image and the actual application. So the canonical way to handle security updates is to update the base image, then rebuild your application image.
I believe you are on track; add a parameter to the URL that you can test on page-load. You could create a GUID and add a table to the database where you store the email address and the GUID; this will make guessing parameters almost impossible. You could also add a timestamp to the table … Read more