What is Bycrypt? Bcrypt is a hashing algorithm based on the Blowfish Cypher. It takes a plain text password as input and outputs a hash of that password as a string. Hashing is a one-way function, which means that even if someone knows the key, they won’t be able to obtain the plaintext password. As …
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When it comes to erasing emails, practically every service offers two options: “Archive” and “Delete”. It’s a little unclear why there are two options that seem so similar. What is the distinction, and which should you use? Both archiving and deleting emails remove them from your inbox, but that’s about where the similarities end. Knowing the …
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The sudo command allows normal users to gain administrator rights that are normally only available to the root user. This post will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on Ubuntu without having to change the sudoers file on your system. Create new Sudo users To add a new user to …
Deep Freeze Deep Freeze by Faronics is a reboot-to-restore software application available for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems that allows system administrators to protect the core operating system and configuration files on a workstation or server by restoring the computer to the saved configuration each time the computer is restarted. Implement Deep Freeze …
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MySQL 5.7 Version Step 1: Login to MySQL MySQL 8.0 version (MariaDB) How to Enable it again MySQL 5.7 MySQL 8.0 version (MariaDB) If you just want to change the policy of password validation plugin: Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36301100/how-do-i-turn-off-the-mysql-password-validation https://techglimpse.com/disable-mysql-password-validation-plugin/
With so much personal information stored on our phones, losing one may be terrible. What can you do once it’s gone? Android offers its own version of “Find My Phone,” which can track your phone without any prior configuration. How It Works Google’s equivalent of Apple’s “Find My Phone” function is simply known as “Find …
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UFW (uncomplicated firewall) is a firewall configuration tool pre-installed in Ubuntu 20.04 that runs on top of iptables. It is easy-to-use and reliable firewall interface. It supports IPv4 and IPv6 versions of Ubuntu. Installation of UFW If UFW is not available in your machine. Install it fir by running this command. sudo apt install ufw You can …
Using a custom DNS server is a simple way to increase your online privacy and security. Changing the DNS server on your Android smartphone is similar to changing the DNS server on other platforms. We’ll demonstrate how it works. DNS is an abbreviation for “Domain Name System,” and it connects web servers to their domain …
As Ubuntu users, we may want to know if we are the only ones using our network, particularly our wireless network, or if there are any other unwanted users using our bandwidth. This ability is also useful when we want to verify that no hacker is using our network to gain access to our system. …
We can all agree that ransomwares are such a headache. Ransomwares are programs that searches a hard drive for user-valuable information (such as documents, tables, images, and databases) and encrypts everything it finds, locking the files. Then, it displays a message demanding payment to restore the data. What to do if your device is infected …