Keeping safe
Category: Security
How to Use Fail2ban to Secure Your Linux Server
Improving your server security should be one of your top priorities, when it comes to managing a linux server. By reviewing your server logs, you may often find different attempts for brute force login, web …
Tomb – A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux
Tomb is a free open source, small, powerful and simple tool for encrypting files on GNU/Linux. At the time of this writing, it comprises of a shell script (zsh) using generic filesystem GNU tools and …
Managing Multi-User Access In Your Hosting Account
If you operate a business or manage large projects you know how important a multi-user environment can be. In this post I’d like to give some tips and tricks on how you can operate a …
WPScan – A Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
WordPress is all over the web; it’s the most popular and most used content management system (CMS) out there. Is your website or blog is powered by WordPress? Did you know that malicious hackers are …
Install and Configure ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) in Linux
If you look at IT-related job postings anywhere, you will notice a steady demand for security pros. This does not only mean that cybersecurity is an interesting field of study, but also a very lucrative …
Is WordPress Secure? Here’s What the Data Says
WordPress is, by far, the most popular way to build a website. That popularity has the unfortunate side effect of also making WordPress sites a juicy target for malicious actors all across the world. And …
How to Fix Your Connection is Not Private Error in Chrome (16 Tips)
Kinsta works with thousands of different WordPress sites on a daily basis, so when it comes to different types of errors, we’ve pretty much seen it all. From database connection errors to the white screen …
5 Tools to Scan a Linux Server for Malware and Rootkits
There are constant level of high attacks and port scans on Linux servers all the time, while a properly configured firewall and regular security system updates adds a extra layer to keep the system safe, …
How to Set up Sucuri Firewall (WAF) on Your WordPress Site
Bot traffic is higher than it’s ever been. According to Distil Networks, in 2017, bad bots accounted for 21.8% of all website traffic, a 9.5% increase over the previous year. Not only that, but 74% …
6 Key Steps to Ensure GDPR Compliance – The Steps You Need to Take Right Away
Not everyone can be a GDPR compliance specialist, but that doesn’t mean you should ignore data protection and privacy; especially if you run a business. Even though much talk has been made of the May …
Cryptmount – A Utility to Create Encrypted Filesystems in Linux
Cryptmount is a powerful utility which allows any user to access encrypted filesystems on-demand under GNU/Linux systems without requiring root privileges. It requires Linux 2.6 or higher. It handles both encrypted partitions as well as …
How to Change FTP Port in Linux
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is one of the oldest network protocol used today as standard file transfers over computer networks. FTP protocol uses the standard port 21/TCP as command port. Although, there are a …
How to Block Ping ICMP Requests to Linux Systems
Some system administrators often block ICMP messages to their servers in order to hide the Linux boxes to outside world on rough networks or to prevent some kind of IP flooding and denial of service …
How to Check and Patch Meltdown CPU Vulnerability in Linux
Meltdown is a chip-level security vulnerability that breaks the most fundamental isolation between user programs and the operating system. It allows a program to access the operating system kernel’s and other programs’ private memory areas, …
10 Best WordPress Security Plugins to Lock out the Bad Guys
Before we dive into some WordPress security plugins, let’s start with an example. Say you buy a new house. This exciting new investment requires a hefty down-payment you’re probably not used to spending. And, of …
How to Fix ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS on Your WordPress Site
We come across a lot of different errors here at Kinsta, and ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS (also known as a redirect loop) is one we see on a regular basis. Typically this occurs after a recent change on …
CPU Vulnerabilities – What Kinsta Customers Need to Know
The first week of January news started to spread about new CPU vulnerabilities that have been discovered. This affects millions of devices, not only cloud computing platforms such as Google Cloud and AWS, but even …
How to Check Integrity of File and Directory Using “AIDE” in Linux
In our mega guide to hardening and securing CentOS 7, under the section “protect system internally”, one of the useful security tools we listed for internal system protection against viruses, rootkits, malware, and detection of …
What goes into protecting your credit card information on the web?
* This post was originally posted on November 28, 2014, and has been updated for accuracy. Purchases happen with the click of a button, a swipe of a finger, or simply, no human interaction at …
How to Configure Basic HTTP Authentication in Nginx
Basic HTTP authentication is a security mechanism to restrict access to your website/application or some parts of it by setting up simple username/password authentication. It can be used essentially to protect the whole HTTP server, …