by Visakh S | Jul 11, 2016 | Server Administration
From credit card details to health records, everything is stored in a database these days. For a hacker, a database is a gold mine. In fact, the purpose of a majority of cyber attacks is to get access to a database. The security of a database server depends a lot on...
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 16, 2016 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, FTP, MySQL, Nginx, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
Where do people host their WordPress sites? If Google Trends is anything to go by, more and more webmasters now prefer cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s fueled by the popular notion that everything in cloud is super easy – one-touch...
by Visakh S | Jun 9, 2016 | DDoS, Docker, Nginx, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support, VMware, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
WordPress now powers 42% of the web, and continues to add 52,000 new sites to its account every day. This huge popularity has given rise to a thriving industry that includes website designing, custom development, and specialized WordPress hosting. As per a Google...
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 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...
