Category: Security

One-liner to mail when someone logs in as root This is a short post describing how to automatically send an email every time someone logs in as root on a linux server. Add the following line to /root/.bash_profile if you...
Easy way to decode or decrypt eval gzinflate str_rot13 base64_decode variables If you download and install many WordPress themes you will sometimes find themes that have encrypted lines or variables in the footer part of the theme, in the functions.php...
ufw and IP masquerading I’ve just upgraded my home server from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 and experienced that my ufw firewall (iptables) would not route traffic from my local network to the Internet. My IP...
WordPress themes with eval and base64_decode lines Lately I’ve been downloading and reading myself up on WordPress themes and stumbled upon something curious. Many themes had encrypted code/lines starting with the following...