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Stop PHP nobody Spammers

PHP and Apache has a history of not being able to track which users are sending out mail through the PHP mail function from the nobody user causing leaks in formmail scripts and malicious users to spam from your server without you knowing who or where. Watching your exim_mainlog doesn’t exactly help, you see th…

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BCC/php spam email and a fix

eth00 writes: So I am sure if you are running a cPanel server you are having the exact same trouble as we have been having the last week, lots of spam! It appears there is somebody in this world that has decided to write a rather efficient script that searches for webforms then sends spam…

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Webcentral data center is down !

WebCentral, Australias biggest web hosting provider, is experiencing a mayor outage! Read their notice here: Outage:05 December 12:00 AEST Water supply to our Wickham Street premises has been cut this morning, which has affected the air conditioning in our data centre. We initially shut off all non-essential services in an attempt to reduce the impact…

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Australia Hosting Services 2005-2009 Forecast

by Tim Sheedy, Margaret Banaghan, Patrik Bihammar : This IDC study presents the 2005?2009 market sizing and spending forecast for the Australia systems infrastructure service provider (SISP) market, together with supporting analyses of the underlying forces that are shaping the evolving market., either driving customer demand or inhibiting market growth. The SISP market is predicted…

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Syctl.conf Hardening

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 of the variables listed below is the enabling of syn cookie protection. Only place the bottom two if…

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Setting up Samba

What is Samba? “Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients

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90s Web Design: A Nostalgic Look Back

A nostalgic look back at 90s web design, and a warning to anyone whose website is an accidental anachronism. Remember the days when every PC was beige, every website had a little Netscape icon on the homepage, Geocities and Tripod hosted just about every single personal homepage, and “Google” was just a funny-sounding word?

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