Repair Damaged WordPress Installation

Repair Damaged WordPress Installation

Recently one of my close friend’s WordPress site got attacked and he approached for a possible solution. After some basic assessment I found that the attacker had accessed the database and deleted the entries from wp_users table. So after restoring the values, the site started working smoothly. This experience led to the inspiration for writing…

Quality and Security: Paradise of Success

Quality and Security: Paradise of Success

Recently I had attended a two day workshop on Information Security at my college. The workshop exposed to a various topics of the security domain. Out of which my personal favorite was the web based security and truly speaking, a person needn’t become a hacker to breakdown a website’s security since a simple search yields…

Joomla Installation Fix

Joomla Installation Fix

Recently I got a project for installing Joomla and configuring a template provided by the client itself. It was a very simple project and usually takes around half an hour at most. But as the installation process started, I was flooded with the following error messages: Warning: session_start(): open(sess_78ac9881b78726f2fb5c194667f74021,  O_RDWR) failed:No such file or directory…