Security

Fight the Malware with Custom ClamAV to on cPanel Servers

10 March 2018

Installing ClamAV via Command Line (SSH) This command tells the system that we want ClamAV to be listed as installed by the local RPM system: /scripts/update_local_rpm_versions –edit target_settings.clamav installed This command is the one responsible for installing the ClamAV RPM on your server: /scripts/check_cpanel_rpms –fix –targets=clamav Creating Symbolic Links If you need manually scan or […]

Preparing Linux Template VMs

27 September 2015

Dan over at Bashing Linux has a good post on what he does to prep his template VMs for use with Puppet. He’s inspired me to share how I prepare my Linux VMs to become a template. He’s got a few steps I don’t have, mainly to prep for Puppet, and I have a few steps he […]

Bad Bot Blocker

16 August 2014

Bad Bot Blocker 223 Apache htaccess rules to block bad bots. Bad bots are defined as: E-mail harvesters Content scrapers Spam bots Vulnerability scanners Aggressive bots that provide little value Bots linked to viruses or malware Government surveillance bots Russian search engine Yandex Chinese search engine Baidu Yandex/Baidu Unless your website is written in Russian […]

Strong Ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd

4 July 2014

Strong Ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd Why? The above ciphers are Copy Pastable in your nginx, Lighttpd or Apache config. These provide Strong SSL Security for all modern browsers, plus you get an A+ on the SSL Labs Test. In short, they set a strong Forward Secrecy enabled ciphersuite, they disable SSLv2 and SSLv3, add […]

SMF Forum Showing Blank Screen / Not Working

23 March 2014

PROBLEM: You tried installing Simple Machines Forum software (SMF) either from the source website or using Fantastico, but it shows as a blank page when you try to access it. No issues are seen in the cPanel Error Log and all other configurations appear to be correct. SOLUTION This issue is caused by suhosin security […]

Install Linux Malware Detect (LMD) in RHEL CentOS

1 December 2013

Install Linux Malware Detect (LMD) in RHEL CentOS What is Malware? Malware is called malicious software, script or code which is created and used by hackers to retrieve information of private data or gain access to any private computer systems. Malware can be trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits or any other malicious programs which can be […]