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Identifying exploits and exploited websites
I have made posts before regarding how to find exploits, and what to do about those previously, however it has come to my attention that some people are not even realizing what the basics are to look for. In this … Continue reading
WordPress mass update script 3.4
This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading
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Tagged cli, command line, mass, script, Security, shell, upgrade, wordpress
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Keeping your hosting panel updated
From time to time hosting control panels (Such as Plesk) get updated by their creators. Those updates may often include patches to critical vulnerabilities, so its a good idea to keep track of those. We try to keep our customers … Continue reading
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Tagged hosting, plesk, reseller, Security, updates, virtualmin, webmin
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WordPress mass update script 3.3.2
This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading
Account authorization and password resets
The primary way we identify our customers is via the email addresses associated with your account. If you do not communicate with us using one of these listed accounts, it may delay or slow the work we do on your … Continue reading
Distrubution release support (CentOS4/Debian 5)
Linux distributions keep moving forwards, and as they progress older releases stop receiving security patches or updates. As part of our commitment to maintaining reliable and safe services, we would like to highlight the following announcements... CentOS-4 End Of Life … Continue reading
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Tagged centos, debian, distribution, EL4, end-of-life, lenny, Security, updates
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Linux kernel CVE-2012-0056 vulnerability
You have probably all heard about the recent local privilige escalation in recent Linux kernels by now. If not you can read all about it here. This only affects our recent Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" VPSs, which by default were installed … Continue reading
WordPress mass update script 3.1.4
This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading
Jboss Exploits
There is a JBoss exploit out in the wild. See http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0738 and https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-30741 for details.
WordPress mass update script 3.04 – Urgent
From the guys at wordpress We've fixed a pretty critical vulnerability in WordPress' core HTML sanitation library, and because this library is used lots of places it's important that everyone update as soon as possible. I realize an update during … Continue reading