by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 21, 2012 | Server Administration
Some critical vulnerabilities were reported in the Remote Desktop Protocol, that allows remote code execution if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to an affected system. Read more on Microsoft RDP Vulnerability. Parallels has come out with...
by Sherin George | Mar 6, 2012 | cPanel, Server Administration
While discussing PHP permissions in the last blog, we concluded that SuPHP servers ideally needed PHP file permissions of just 600. Out of many means to set the permission/ownership, the quickest is to set the permissions, using a script. You may set this script as a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 1, 2012 | cPanel, Server Administration
A mailing list is actually a list of mail addresses, to which the same information/content is sent. Suppose you have to send an announcement to all users of a particular service, say customers who use your enterprise backup solution, all you need to do is to send it...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 15, 2012 | Plesk, Server Administration
Parallels have released fixes and micro updates for vulnerabilities in old Windows Plesk 8 and windows Plesk 9. Another recent vulnerability in Plesk panel was reported and its micro update was released a couple of days ago. The details of the Plesk Panel...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 4, 2012 | Apache, Server Administration
cPanel allows for adding custom handlers for Apache. Apache handlers specify as to how to deal with web files, and how to serve a file with a specific extension. For instance, Apache might be configured to process all files with the file extension .pl as perl files...
by admin | Dec 26, 2011 | Server Administration
In February this year, a well known Web Hosting News Site reported Cybercrime-Linked Web Host VolgaHost Goes Offline . The post goes on to say “The hosting provider has been known in the industry for hosting botnet command-and-control servers and other online...
