Web form SMTP authentication with PHPmailer

Information collection is important especially when you need some info from user through the web. Most common interaction is a “Contact” form through website. If you subscribe to a webhosting service, normally webhosting provider will equip you with capabilities to send mail through form. However, you most likely have to authenticate as a valid email user to ensure you able to send mail through a form (this is to prevent spammers utilizing mail service to sending out mail without authentication). PHPmailer is very useful script for that purpose. What you need is:  Download PHP mailer and ensure your webhost provider allow you to send mail through a form (Some of them will not allow you…

Joomla!! Vulnerability Scanning with Joomscan

WARNING!!! This should be use for academical purpose only. It is Sunday, suddenly I feel sooo boring (even tough a lot of thing I can do eg: Sleep ). I would like to share how to check for possible vulnerabalities for your Joomla!! based website, using one of tools that listed in OWASP project. The project for this Joomla!! Scanner is funded by YGN Ethical Hacker Group, Myanmar In this post, I use my backtrack Virtual Machine (You can just download and execute them but you need to have perl installed on your machine). To scan, Issue following command inside the “joomscan” directory : [root@alifazman joomscan] perl joomscan.pl -u yourtarget.com Then just wait and it will…

Drupal – Broken Image after migrate to new server : Solved

Few days back, I’ve done some account migration for my clients. One of the server is going to take down. However, once transferred I noticed that the image on the page can’t be loaded. Symlink seems not working correctly. Drupal community post suggested it could be from Apache mod_rewrite that wasn’t enabled. Unfortunately, it’s enabled.I also recompile few modules, library and hack Apache configuration, clear drupal Cache. The solution that I did to make the page view the Image correctly is not that tough (I accidentally play around and it seems fixed them). I just install drupal on my local machine and compared with the client drupal. Nothing much differences in term of “.htaccess” file,…

Ruby on Rails and me.

Ruby on Rails is quite a newcomers if compared from PHP . PHP is super senior of Rails. Rails is a programming language that claimed can save your time to code because it came with a framework. Visit here for your exploration to ruby on rails. I used to  exploring Ruby on Rails. But the enthusiastic is not as much as PHP maybe because there is no “partner” to have a chit-chat , talk and discuss about RoR. Well, I would like to refresh my rails skill soon. There is a lot of things in my mind right now and I need to solve a puzzle to make those things to be in their priority…