by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 14, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration
Hot on the heals of the vulnerability announced a few days ago, cPanel have reported another vulnerability in Exim. New RPMs with the patched version of Exim are already available. So even if you ran /scripts/eximup or /scripts/upcp a few days ago, you’ll have...
by admin | Dec 12, 2010 | Server Administration
Mails have already started to circulate in office. Committees being formed to plan and organize events. So there’s definitely a buzz in the air. Yes, its Christmas time again! Flashes of red, white and green are definitely starting to lift everyone’s...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 10, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration
On 8th December Sergey Kononenko, discovered a vulnerability in the Exim mail server, that could allow hackers to gain control of the host server. Though initially thought to effect only packages for Debian, it appears to be present in all versions. Exim is the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 8, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
Most of us are familiar with LAMP, the most popular free/open source solution stack in use today. There is an, not as popular, alternative that database intensive site owners might be interested in: LAIP. While LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP; LAIP swaps...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 4, 2010 | Server Administration
A vulnerability in Linux kernels prior to 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125 allows a local user to cause a denial of service attack on your server. So this is a good time to cross check the level of access you’ve granted to the users on your server. If you’ve...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 30, 2010 | Server Administration
If you haven’t, you should. You’d be surprised at how different it looks, not to mention the loss of functionality. A research recently conducted by 1&1, one of the largest web hosting companies in the world, shows that 50% of the companies they...
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