by Visakh S | Jul 20, 2016 | cPanel, Plesk, Server Administration
On 18th July, our security team was alerted to a series of vulnerabilities called HTTPoxy. It allows attackers to steal data from CGI enabled web servers. As of this writing, patches only available for Litespeed, but we’ve identified ways to mitigate this...
by Visakh S | Jul 1, 2016 | cPanel, DDoS, FTP, Server Administration, Server Management
A locked gate is an obstacle, but a skilled attacker can easily defeat it. Now, what if this gate has 10 different kinds of locks, is rigged with an alarm, and leads to a mine field? Yeah, that would dissuade a vast majority of attackers. This approach to security is...
by Visakh S | Jun 1, 2016 | cPanel, Technical Support
Google blacklists about 8,000 to 11,000 websites per day for hosting malware or phishing contents. Of these, up to 98% are classified as “compromised” websites – which means, these sites belong to legitimate businesses, but were infected with...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 27, 2016 | cPanel, Plesk, Technical Support
From spam filtering to web analytics, an average website uses scores of hosting features for day-to-day operations. All leading control panels deliver most of these features, but each differ in usability, maintainability, security, and more. For eg., both cPanel/WHM...
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...
