WordPress Activity Log – 7 Things You Should Be Tracking
When your WordPress website is small, it’s easy to keep tabs on everything that happens within…
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What’s PCI and why does it matter? | cPanel Blog
* This post was originally posted on November 28, 2014, and has been updated for accuracy. …
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3 Ways to Prevent Email Abuse | cPanel Blog
* This post was originally posted on July 12, 2016, and has been updated for accuracy. …
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An Overview of TLS 1.3 – Faster and More Secure
It has been over eight years since the last encryption protocol update, but the final version…
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The Importance of WordPress Two-Factor Authentication
We take security very seriously here at Kinsta and that’s why we offer two-factor authentication for all…
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In-Depth HTTP to HTTPS Migration Guide for WordPress
As of July 24th, 2018, Google Chrome is now be marking all non-HTTPS sites as “Not Secure.” Regardless…
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What is WordPress XML-RPC and How To Stop an Attack
The WordPress XML-RPC is a specification that aims to standardize communications between different systems. It uses HTTP…
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Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Your Account
Because we want to make WordPress.com accounts as secure as we can, we’ve made it easier…
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How to Lockdown Your WP Admin Login
Why should you lockdown your WP Admin Login? Because if you don’t take action to prevent this…
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How To Remove The WordPress Admin User Account
If you’ve been on the internet in the past week or so, you’ve probably heard about the spate of “brute force” attacks that have been made on WordPress sites, specifically targeting accounts with the username “admin.” It has always been a… -
Speed Up and Secure Your Site With CloudFlare
The speed at which your site loads is becomig increasingly important. Not only does a speedy site provide a good user experience, but it’s becoming increasingly important from an SEO perspective – site speed is a factor that Google considers… -
Removing the WordPress admin file editor
How many times have you handed over a project to a client, only to receive a…
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How to rename the WordPress admin account
These days WordPress lets you choose an admin username when you create a new installation, but…
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WordPress Security Alert – TimThumb Image Resizing Script
In recent days a significant WordPress security threat has emerged. The root of it is the ability for unsavory types to compromise a very common image resizing script called TimThumb which is used in many WordPress themes and plugins. Through… - cPanel - WHM | Linux | Resources | Security
Apache logs
Issues with suhosin or mod_security , then best check your Apache error logs tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
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How to check and stop if DDoS attack is going on.
Distributed denial-of-service attacks In a distributed attack, the attacking computers are often personal computers with broadband…
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cPanel Name Server Setup
It seems no matter which flavor of linux / unix you are running and which control…
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APF firewall. Daily automated email showing firewall status
Charles Sweeney writes : This is how to get your server to send you a daily…
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Syctl.conf Hardening
The purpose of syctl hardening is to help prevent spoofing and dos attacks. This short guide…
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Install APF Firewall on a cPanel sever
To install APF firewall login to your server as root and follow this tutorial
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Security Guide for cPanel servers
You must keep your box secure at all times, getting compromized could lead to dataloss, which…
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HELP! My server is under a DDOS attack!
Ok first just take a breath, you are getting nothing done by worrying. This guide is…
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Server Security Considerations
Securing a Linux server is critical to protect your system from vulnerabilities, breaches, and malicious attacks….
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Detect and Clean a hacked cPanel server with this T0rnkit Tutorial
This tutorial is for system admins and will run you through how to Detect and Clean…
