Archive for 'Security'
Dealing With Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Posted on 05. Feb, 2006 by wiredgorilla.
TweetDistributed denial of service attacks are frustrating — they’re frustrating for the company under attack, and frustrating for the web host. They can also be costly in terms of business and goodwill lost. Fortunately, there are ways to deal with them, if you are willing to prepare for the possibility of a DDoS before it [...]
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HELP! My server is under a DDOS attack!
Posted on 03. Feb, 2006 by wiredgorilla.
TweetOk first just take a breath, you are getting nothing done by worrying. This guide is meant to try and help mitigate the effects of an attack that is in progresss. I have compiled a lot of the things that I do but it is very possible I have forgotten something. Please feel free to [...]
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PHP optimization How-To: Installing Eaccelerator
Posted on 01. Jan, 2006 by wiredgorilla.
TweetEaccelerator is a PHP accelerator/encoder/caching utility that is based off of the old mmcache (which is no longer being maintained). What Eaccelerator does is: it caches your PHP scripts so that the database is no longer being queried everytime someone needs a script. This is particularly useful for large forums, but pretty much anyone can [...]
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Server Security Considerations
Posted on 19. Mar, 2005 by wiredgorilla.
Tweet>Server security is as important as network security because servers often hold a great deal of an organization’s vital information. If a server is compromised, all of its contents may become available for the cracker to steal or manipulate at will. The following sections detail some of the main issues.
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Detect and Clean a hacked cPanel server with this T0rnkit Tutorial
Posted on 21. Dec, 2004 by wiredgorilla.
TweetThis tutorial is for system admins and will run you through how to Detect and Clean a hacked cPanel server with T0rnkit
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How to change your server signature
Posted on 09. Dec, 2004 by wiredgorilla.
TweetDisguising your server signature is always a good idea as you wont reveal the operating system to potential script kiddies and hackers.
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HERE ARE SIX SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP KEEP SPAM AT BAY
Posted on 06. Sep, 2004 by wiredgorilla.
TweetCheck out those basic rules to avoid spam robots to use your email for spaming !
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How To Install RKHunter
Posted on 18. Aug, 2004 by wiredgorilla.
TweetRKHunter also known as RootKit Hunter is a scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9% that you don’t have any rootkits, backdoors, and local exploits but running tests and e-mailing you results.
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How To Install CHKROOTKIT
Posted on 18. Aug, 2004 by wiredgorilla.
Tweetchkrootkit: shell script that checks system binaries for rootkit modification.
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Install BFD (Brute Force Detection)
Posted on 17. Aug, 2004 by wiredgorilla.
TweetBFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures.
