How To Get rsync To Work With macOS Ventura – Getting Error “Operation not permitted”

Author: , May 5th, 2023

I have a new iMac running macOS Ventura 13.3.1. I tried to rsync some files from another host and got the following error:

In order to get rsync to have access to the hard drive in macOS Ventura, you need to add rsync and other programs to the Full Disk Access panel under Privacy […]

How To Protect a WordPress Site Using Basic Auth in Apache 2.4

Author: , August 25th, 2016

Apache 2.4 changed the security configuration directives a bit. Here is an example using basic auth:

What tripped me up for a while was that I still had the Require all granted directive inside the container, and that needed to be removed for the auth to work.

OpenSSL Heartbleed Security Flaw Summary and Resources

Author: , April 8th, 2014

Summary TLS heartbeat read overrun (CVE-2014-0160) – A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can be used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server. OpenSSL Versions Affected The 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta releases of OpenSSL are affected including 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta1. OpenSSL 1.0.2-beta through 1.0.2-beta1 […]

How to Configure FreeBSD Kernel Security Levels

Author: , October 23rd, 2009

The kernel runs with five different security levels. Any super-user process can raise the level, but no process can lower it. The security levels are: -1: Permanently insecure mode – always run the system in insecure mode. This is the default initial value. 0: Insecure mode – immutable and append-only flags may be turned off. All devices may be […]

How to Improve PHP Security with CGI

Author: , October 14th, 2009

http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.cgi-bin.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.cgi-bin.php#43998