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There had been a major software security breach in the world of software management. I've been following this event in order to grasp the magnitude or scale of this breach which had ensnared public and private organizations. It does appear this security breach had affected a wide range of companies not only in the US and also agencies in the US Fed Gov as well. There was a joint write-up between Microsoft and Fireeye on how this breach was completed.

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html

https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a

Many of the IT Security has been using security tools to decipher what was done in the code (dll) file by the following software:

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html

https://github.com/cybercdh/hacks/tree/master/sunburst

https://www.winitor.com/

https://ghidra-sre.org/

We will provide some software which can easily be installed on windows, linux, and Mac as a standalone software package.

-- https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
-- https://bitnami.com/stack/wamp/installer
-- https://www.mamp.info/en/downloads/
-- https://www.appserv.org/en/download/
-- https://ampps.com/downloads
-- https://www.wampserver.com/en/

installation to install these things separately as three different packages
-- https://www.znetlive.com/blog/how-to-install-apache-php-and-mysql-on-windows-10-machine/

-- mariaDB: https://mariadb.org/download/
-- mysql: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
-- mysql: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
-- php: https://www.php.net/downloads
-- https://downloads.apache.org/httpd/

Notable mention of a super-fast HTTP Engine
-- https://nginx.org/en/download.html

We will plan to write some documentation on how to install mariaDB+php+apache+odbc on a later Chapter.

Special linux distro LAMP installation guide
-- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mariadb-php-lamp-stack-on-debian-10
-- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mariadb-php-lamp-stack-on-centos-8
-- https://www.itzgeek.com/post/how-to-install-linux-apache-mariadb-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04/

// ADD DNS to your mac machine on CMD
sudo networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 185.228.168.9 208.67.222.222

// Change your mac hostname, pcname, localhostname
sudo scutil --set HostName <NEWMACHINENAME>
sudo scutil --set ComputerName <NEWMACHINENAME>
sudo scutil --set LocalHostName <NEWMACHINENAME>