by Visakh S | Jul 24, 2015 | Server Management
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 CentOS and RedHat server from...
by Visakh S | Jan 27, 2015 | Server Administration
Reports are coming in from our Dedicated Linux Systems Administrators about an evolving threat, disclosed earlier today. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc), allows remote or local actors to execute arbitrary code under the privilege of user...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 16, 2010 | Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
If you happen to know any Windows Server “fanboys”, you’d probably have noticed the smug look they have on their faces right now. Its most likely after little announcement. A recent version of the Unreal IRC server source tar ball, stored on various...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 26, 2010 | Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
Auditing your servers should be a part of your basic security policy. Part of that audit is collecting information. The more information you have about your servers the better. So over the coming weeks we’ll look at simple and small programs that can help you...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 24, 2010 | FTP, Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
All Webhosts go through a lot of trouble securing their servers. Monitoring the server, setting up a firewall, creating multiple backups etc. Unfortunately, all this hard word can be undone by a vulnerability in a site hosted on this server. If its a shared hosting...
