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 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 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 | 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...
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