Looking for CentOS help? Visit our CentOS 7 help and tutorials page. Red Hat Packages Manager – RPM is an open source organization utility for any Red Hat based structures (RHEL, CentOS and Fedora). The utility allows admins as well as users to install, uninstall, update, verify, query and manage the system software package in Linux/Unix/ systems. …
cPanel has announced a recently discovered vulnerability in the process of converting Horde MySQL to SQLite. The problem arises when the conversion process requires a MySQL password reset. In this scenario, the password is passed to the script as a command line argument, making it visible to attackers in a ps process listing. The vulnerability is addressed …
Linux’s newest kernel, 4.11, was released just over 10 days ago. It’s mostly a hardware update, with plenty of new drivers. However, Arch received some updates. If you’re an Arch user, you should look into updating to get all the latest benefits. You can see the full list of modifications here and download the latest …
cPanel has announced that version 64 is now considered stable. Here are some of the highlights: API authentication via tokens. cPanel/WHM has traditionally worked with access hashes. If for example you want to connect WHMCS to WHM, you do it via access hash. That will slowly start to change as API tokens are preferred. Entire …
What’s the best DNSONLY setup for cPanel? What DNS server performs the best under stress? We set out to answer those questions by conducting a series of performance tests. Before disclosing the final results, let me walk you through what was done: The three systems we tested are as follows: Bind PowerDNS MyDNS They were all …
By XKCD If you ever run SQL queries to a remote database from your server, the number one thing you have to be careful about is making your queries impenetrable to SQL injection attacks. SQL injection attacks are very commonplace and can be very harmful. An attacker could manage to drop entire tables or modify key …
Let’s Encrypt is the new cool kid in town. What’s cooler than automated, free certificates that are as secure as commercial SSL certs, but come with none of the pain associated with having to validate and renew your certs? If you’ve just set up your new VPS server at VPSCheap, and want to find out how …
This tutorial is part of our ongoing series on CentOS 7 help and tutorials. CentOS is a minimalistic distribution by nature. It was designed that way and there are countless benefits to not including things that certain users will not need or find useful. When it comes to Python, CentOS does come with a base …
AutoSSL was launched as a cPanel feature last year. It allows for the automatic generation of domain-validated SSL certs in any accounts in which it has been enabled. More recently, the feature is also integrated with Let’s Encrypt. We will write a post about the caveats of using Let’s Encrypt later down the road, but …
The German CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) has published a warning about increased attacks and abuse attempts that use the Portmapper service in a server. This service is typically found on port 111 tcp/udp. In a standard CentOS 6 or 7 install, this port is used rpcbind. The CERT warns that they’re seeing an increased amount of DDoS reflection …