During a rutine malware cleanup a file named hax.html caught my attention. On the outside the file was a simple “you’re hacked page” that looked like this: 407 Authentic Exploit Shell But with a POST method sent to it a nice little...
If you receive the following error message in the /var/log/messages file while restarting the pure-ftpd service, the problem is in the ftp configuration file at /etc/pure-ftpd.conf pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Configuration error: Illegal load limit: 0...
Here is a list of the most commanly used Linux commands for performance monitoring and debugging that will be helpful when you are working on Linux environment. This list is not comprehensive or authoritative by any means. However, this list has...
The Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance page is visible when WordPress core, theme and/or plugin updates are running. But from time to time WordPress updates break and when that happens WordPress stucks in maintenance mode. To fix this...
There’s a lot of stuff out there about SQL injection attacks but there’s not much that will help you figure out how to stop these attacks from occurring. First, let’s talk about what a SQL Injection Attack really is. Some people...
Each application taht uses your SQL Server database creates a connection on the database and this connection continues unless the session is killed or terminated privately within the application. A similar connection is established even for each...
Back in December 2020, cPanel introduced the Welcome panel for new cPanel accounts in the cPanel version 94. This feature by default shows Creating an email and Site Publisher sections. If you have the Site Publisher option disabled globally in WHM...
During a regular anaysis of a WordPress website for a new user I’ve noticed a file named wp-blogs.php in the public_html folder. As an experienced WordPress user, the name itself drew attention, as I do not recall ever seeing a file called wp...