by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 26, 2016 | Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support, WordPress
Plugins are Addons that extend the functionality of a WordPress website. To use custom features, many website owners install a lot of WordPress plugins. It is easy to install Plugins from the WordPress Admin Dashboard. There are plugins for a range of purposes –...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 25, 2016 | Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
WHMCS is a commonly used ‘client, billing and support’ portal for businesses. To protect the confidentiality of data stored in it, this software has many security features. IP ban is such a security feature in WHMCS to prevent unauthorized access to the...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 5, 2016 | Magento, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
Are you a website owner? Do you have Magento shopping cart in your site? Is your server running an insecure version of Linux kernel? If the answers to these questions are ‘yes’, then you’d be noticing a ‘Dirty COW vulnerability’ alert in...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 4, 2016 | MySQL, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
MySQL database server is widely used by online businesses to store their critical and valuable data. MariaDB and Percona are other database servers based on MySQL. But the confidentiality and security of these database servers goes for a toss when one fine morning a...
by Reeshma Mathews | Oct 12, 2016 | Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
In Coppermine photo gallery, user passwords can be easily reset using ‘Forgot password’ link in the gallery login page. The new password generation link would be mailed to the email account corresponding to that user. But in cases where the email...
by Visakh S | Aug 24, 2016 | Server Administration, WordPress
If your website runs on WordPress v4.5.3 website, attackers can now bring down your site through a Denial of Service attack. This is possible through two vulnerabilities that were disclosed on 22nd Aug: CVE-2016-6897 – This is a Cross Site Request Forgery...
