The ConfigServer Security & Firewall is a popular open source Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application, compatible with most Linux servers. Continue reading
On Linux systems there are a few temporal directories used for storage, like /tmp, /var/tmp and /dev/shm. This directories are used to store temporary files from different services such as Apache, MySQL, etc.
However, sometimes this directories are also used by crackers and script kiddies to store malicious/malware and virus executables. This malicious scripts can be an open door to send spam, exploit the system as root or spread viruses over the network.
This tutorial will show you how to secure /tmp partition, and also the /dev/shm directory. Continue reading
c99 Shell Scripts are one of the main headache for almost all cPanel server administrators even though they use mod_security and all.
The c99 php (Hypertext Preprocessor) shell script is an awesome piece of hacking script. The only limitation of it being that it needs an unsecured uploader in order to get it uploaded and then the execution part is a piece of cake.
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A step by step paper how to secure linux server with cPanel/WHM and
Apache installed. By default, linux is not secured enough but you have
to understand there is no such thing as “totally secured server/system”.
The purpose of this paper is to understand how to at least provide some
kind of security to the server.
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