EasyApache 4 and you! For all cPanel administrators, EasyApache is a commonly used tool for setting up and configuring all your Apache needs. It lets us use an easy to navigate web GUI to configure and compile Apache and PHP…
Transferring email can be done many different ways and can be quite difficult without the right tools. The tool imapsync, included in the EPEL repository, allows for the easy transfer of emails from one server to another. All that is…
Upon request of changing all the passwords on a server, we created a script to change all the passwords on a cPanel server. This script enables passwords to be changed from the command line, sends a list of users to…
Last week, cPanel released version 11.46 to its Release tree which is what most servers run on. Many servers have already gotten the latest version or will in the next couple of days. There are, however, a couple of requirements…
One of the most commonly installed utilities on a Linux system, Bourne Again Shell(Bash), was vulnerable to a serious Remote Code Execution vulnerability. These vulnerabilities were documented as CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169. This allowed an attacker with the ability to execute…
Recently we have noticed a large amount of hits to the xmlrpc.php files within WordPress installations and have been causing server loads to rise. This is due to functionality in WordPress called pingbacks that is being used to perform DDOS…
WordPress is one of the largest content management systems around and is often a target to a plethora of attacks. Recently WordPress brute force attacks have become more and more common. These brute force attacks are using a large amount…
We had quite the day today. One of the bigger holes I have ever seen, the Heartbleed openssl vulnerability. This only affects RedHat 6 and its derivatives such as Centos, CloudLinux and several others. All of our clients had the…
I’d like to take a quick moment to introduce our new Server Technician, Michael Harris. In addition to being a server administrator, Michael has a lot of experience in php application development, so we are looking forward to expanding into…
We here at GOT have been quiet, but we have been developing some new strategies to mitigate DDoS attacks and also provide a platform for VERY high bandwidth applications. The technology is similar but with different approaches. We are hosting…