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Server Attack

How to Detect Outbound Server Attack

This article describes how to detect outbound server attack and tackle abuse complaints on your web hosting environments. It’s not a secret and if you yourself are a linux systems administrator or a website developer or someone who is dealing with production environments, you are already well-aware of the three demons we have to face almost every day on the servers we are managing which are “Spamming”, “Phishing” and “Abuse Complaints”. ( I know there are more of these kinds [...]

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How to fix Deceptive Site Ahead

Deceptive site ahead  is quite common page for infected website with malware’s or spywares. Generally, this vulnerability comes from outdated scripts, third-party plugins, or vulnerable themes. Google automatically detects and warn its users about the infected website. The detailed message will appear as Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on domain.com. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you. In short to explain in an easy way this warning means search engine like Google have detected a hack [...]

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PCI Compliance Checklist – How to resolve Vulnerabilities.

What is actually PCI Complaince and why it is required? The PCI (Payment Card Industry) is a data security standard that must be followed by all the financial institutions, credit card companies, Payment gateway and merchants those are processing the online card payments. The server, computer or any other IP equipment’s processing these data by MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Visa, and JCB International must compliance with these Data Security Standards.  PCI scan is very essentials and should meet these Data [...]

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Brute Force Prevention On Linux Server

How to install Fail2Ban Fail2Ban is a great utility to use to help prevent a server from being brute forced attacked on SSH. Fail2Ban works with Iptables to block a culprit IP for a certain amount of time. The actual setup and configuring can be done in under 10 minutes. Installation 1.To install fail2ban you will need to have root access (login with user and “su –“ to root). Type the following to begin the install process. yum –enablerepo=dag install fail2ban Yum will install [...]

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