Mohammed has written 27 articles

Installing SSL Certificate in Glassfish 4

Glassfish uses Keystores (.jks), the certificate files need to be imported into the keystore with the corresponding private key before installation. After Installing SSL Certificate on your Domain, and downloading the SSL Files (Private Key, SSL Certificate, and Intermediate Certificate), we need to upload our SSL files to the Server, and prefer where Java is…

Installing & Configuring Fail2ban to Secure your Server

As we have mentioned previously, how to Secure your Server SSH Login. Today, we are going to Install and Configure Fail2ban, to black list illegitimate connections, most likely (DDOS, Bruteforce Attacking, etc..) on your Server. Fail2ban is not available in CentOS package repository. Therefore, we need to install EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository…

How to mount Cloud / VPS Cloud in Rescue

When we boot Server into Rescue using GParted or Knoppix, we need to mount the Logical Volumes in order to fix whatever issue we have. However, we may receive “mount: unknown file system type LVM2_member” Now, let’s scan our Logical Volumes using lvscan From the output, it seems the Logical Volumes have not been activated.…

Securing SSH Login

*UNIX Servers, like any Device once it’s connected to the Internet, it could be under any Cyber Attacks. In this article, we will try to reach Best Practice Security methods, in order to secure our Server(s) login from non-authorized users. First, when you access your *UNIX Server, it may show you the following: As we…

Installing SSL Certificate on Windows Server using Internet Information Services (IIS)

First when applying / assigning your SSL Certificate on your Domain, a POP-UP window will appear and asks you to Download the Private Key. It’s Very important to Download the Private Key, otherwise, you need to reissue the SSL Certificate in order to Download new Private Key. Second step is, to Create and Download *.PFX…