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Is ConfigServer Security & Firewall - csf, OSSEC - Open Source Security and grsecurity are developed for same purpose? [closed]
I am looking for security solution for my dedicated server. Now i am using CSF, in mean while i came to know about ossec and grsecurity.
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Is all the above three stuffs are developed for ...
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cPanel's Web Disk - Security issues?
I'm thinking of using Web Disk (built into the later versions of cPanel) to allow a Windows or Mac computer to map a network drive that is actually a folder on our website (above the public_html ...
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How would I tell if a prospective client website is under DDoS attack?
I have a person asking me whether the DDoS Mitigation Service they're using is worth it. This is out of my expertise, but clearly at some point someone sold this service to the client.
Assuming I ...
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Should WHMCS hacking attemps that never succeed be important to me?
I have WHMCS and I use it with no problem for my hosting purposes.
Almost every 2 or 3 days, I can see a spam with malicious content submitted as a new ticket that tries to hack.
The last one was:
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Storing Downloadable Content Securely
For a site where users can purchase videos for download.
What would be the best way to store the media? Any other helpful considerations are more than welcome.
Outside the root directory?
Seperate ...
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Why chmod 777 is not secure?
chmod 777 file change the permissions of the file file to read, write,
and execute for all.
Ok, so the file can be manipulated in any way by any script on the server. But why is this not ...
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Site overthrown by Turkish hackers
Go ahead, laugh. I forgot to remove the default admin/admin account on my blog. SOmebody got in and has replaced my homepage with some internet graffiti. I've used .htaccess to replace the page with a ...
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Cost effective way to provide static media content
I'd like to be able to deliver around 50MB of static content, either in about 30 individual files up to 10MB or grouped into 3 compressed files, around 5k to 20k times a day. Ideally I'd like to put ...
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How Can I Secure A VPS Installation?
What are the basic steps to securing a VPS installation that I plan to install Webmin on to host my blogs and personal projects?
