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POODLE affects SSLv3 or version 3 of the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which is used to encrypt traffic between a browser and a web site or between a user’s email client and mail server. It’s not as serious as the recent Heartbleed and Shellshock vulnerabilities, but POODLE could allow an attacker to hijack and decrypt […]

This attack usually occurs after the attacker has been able to read the contents of the /etc/passwd file and has enumerated the server’s users. The attacker then runs a script which blindly builds symbolic links (a bit like shortcuts on Windows or Aliases on a Mac) to locations where configuration files for commonly used CMS […]

This Heartbleed vulnerability allows an attacker to read 64 kilobyte chunks of memory from the servers and clients that connect using SSL through a flaw in the OpenSSL’s implementation of the heartbeat extension. cPanel & WHM does not provide any copies of the OpenSSL library. The daemons and applications shipped with cPanel & WHM link […]

This security advisor addon has only been tested on 11.38. Installing this addon is easy, using Git. Git is a powerful version control tool cPanel. It’s also included with cPanel & WHM and the tool used here to check out the cPanel Security Advisor. Git is also distributed with CentOS/RHEL, but cPanel has it’s own […]

It has recently come to light there is a security exploit that seems to be affecting or targeting Cloud Linux and CentOS systems running cPanel. We believe the exploit is done via SSH server. SSHD rootKit exploit libkeyutils.so So far cloudlinux know: Rootkit deposits files /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9 on 64bit systems and /lib/libkeyutils.so.1.9 on 32bit systems It […]

You always use cpanel recommended Security Settings to avoid hacking and other suspicious activity. These cPanel Server Hardening & Security tips will help prevent from hacking. cPanel security checklist This checklist pertains to the Tweak Settings interface of WHM. You can access the Tweak Settings interface at WHM >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings. Setting […]