Keeping safe
Category: Security
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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 email showing the status of your APF firewall. In other words, letting you know if it’s running or not! …
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Syctl.conf Hardening
The purpose of syctl hardening is to help prevent spoofing and dos attacks. This short guide will show what I have found to be a good configuration for the sysctl.conf configuration file. The most important …
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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 means you loose clients which isnt a very good way to run your buisness. You dont have to be …
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Dealing With Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Distributed denial of service attacks are frustrating — they’re frustrating for the company under attack, and frustrating for the web host. They can also be costly in terms of business and goodwill lost. Fortunately, there …
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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 meant to try and help mitigate the effects of an attack that is in progresss. I have compiled a …
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PHP optimization How-To: Installing Eaccelerator
Eaccelerator is a PHP accelerator/encoder/caching utility that is based off of the old mmcache (which is no longer being maintained). What Eaccelerator does is: it caches your PHP scripts so that the database is no …
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Server Security Considerations
>Server security is as important as network security because servers often hold a great deal of an organization’s vital information. If a server is compromised, all of its contents may become available for the cracker …
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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 a hacked cPanel server with T0rnkit
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How to change your server signature
Disguising your server signature is always a good idea as you wont reveal the operating system to potential script kiddies and hackers.
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HERE ARE SIX SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP KEEP SPAM AT BAY
Check out those basic rules to avoid spam robots to use your email for spaming !
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How To Install RKHunter
RKHunter also known as RootKit Hunter is a scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9% that you don’t have any rootkits, backdoors, and local exploits but running tests and e-mailing you results.
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How To Install CHKROOTKIT
chkrootkit: shell script that checks system binaries for rootkit modification.
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Install BFD (Brute Force Detection)
BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures.
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Disable Telnet Access
Telnet should be disabled, and you should use SSH. Telnet sends password in plain text, and ‘crackers/hackers’ can obtain these passwords easily compared to SSH, and then takeover your dedicated web server.
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Force the use of SSH protocol 2
SSH Protocol 1 based systems are facing many automated “root kits”. As a result to step up the security Protcol 2 should be enabled as soon as possible.
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Install LogWatch
Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your system’s logs for a given period of time and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify, in as much detail as you require. …
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Disabling Direct Root Login (SSH)
Disabling root login via shh is a great way to tigthen security on your dedicated server.
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.htaccess Tutorial
In this tutorial you will find out about the .htaccess file and the power it has to improve your website. Although .htaccess is only a file, it can change settings on the servers and allow …
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CHMOD Commands
Chmod command sets UNIX file permissions. You can set the permissions with the help of your FTP client.