by Visakh S | Jul 31, 2015 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Server Management
On 28th July Internet Systems Consortium announced a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-5477) in all BIND DNS server versions from 9.1.0 to 9.9.7-P1 and 9.10.2-P2. It allows a remote attacker to exploit an error in handling TKEY queries to launch a Denial of Service...
by Visakh S | Jul 30, 2015 | Apache, cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Technical Support
In cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin servers that have WordPress websites, high server load is sometimes reported with “xmlrpc.php” showing up as the top CPU hog. xmlrpc.php is a file in WordPress websites used for remote publishing and ping-back tracking....
by Visakh S | Jul 24, 2015 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Server Administration
Qualys reported on 23rd July an important root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2015-3246), and DoS attack vulnerability (CVE-2015-3245) for Linux servers using RedHat’s libuser package. Here’s how you can protect your cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin...
by Visakh S | Nov 28, 2014 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Drupal, Plesk, Server Administration, WordPress
CryptoPHP is a well developed backdoor malware that is spread through themes for popular CMS like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, etc. It runs a bot in your server, and allows remote control for the attacker controlling the botnet. The attacker can then use your server...
by Visakh S | Oct 25, 2014 | DirectAdmin, Sender Verify Failed, Technical Support
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<user2@domain2.com>: host mx.server.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 550-Verification failed for <user1@domain1.com> 550-No Such User Here 550 Sender verify failed If you are a DirectAdmin web host, you would...
by Visakh S | Oct 17, 2014 | Apache, DirectAdmin, FTP, Nginx, Server Administration
UPDATE 17th Oct – Some browsers like Firefox and IE 6 are reporting issues when SSLv3 is disabled. Fortunately, SSLv3 fix is available from OpenSSL, and major distros would soon be putting it to their repos. SSLv3 disabling can soon be done in a phased manner....
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