by Visakh S | May 30, 2016 | Server Administration
On 29th May, we were alerted to a new ImageMagick vulnerability(NOT ImageTragick which we covered earlier) that allows arbitrary code execution on web hosting servers running Apache, Nginx or others as long as ImageMagick binary “convert” is accessible to...
by Visakh S | May 19, 2016 | LXC/LXD, Technical Support, WordPress
WordPress hosting is hot, and if Google Trends is anything to go by, it’s only getting hotter with each passing day. Most web hosting providers now offer specialized WordPress hosting packages, and some even focus exclusively on WordPress hosting. Perils of...
by Visakh S | May 7, 2016 | cPanel
A modern control panel such as cPanel/WHM includes hundreds of features useful for webmasters. But no webmaster uses all of those tools, and it is safe to say no web host uses all of the features in the panel. Also, it is known that cPanel does not offer many software...
by Visakh S | May 5, 2016 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Server Administration
On May 3rd, ImageMagick disclosed a serious Remote Code Execution vulnerablity (CVE-2016–3714) that allows attackers to execute malware hidden in image uploads. ImageMagick is widely used to process images, and is a part of PHP, Ruby, Node.Js, Python and many other...
by Visakh S | May 4, 2016 | Apache, Nginx, Server Management
Early today (3rd May 2016), OpenSSL released patches for two high severity bugs, and 4 low severity ones. The first bug, CVE-2016-2108 is a Memory corruption vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to crash a service or even execute malicious code. The second...
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