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Attackers have taken a liking to a content-injection vulnerability disclosed last week and patched in WordPress 4.7.2 that experts say has been exploited to deface 1.5M sites so far. The issue has evolved into “one of the worst WordPress related vulnerabilities to emerge in some time,” researchers with WordFence, a Seattle-based firm that makes a WordPress security plugin, said Thursday. WordPress silently patched the issue, an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in a REST API endpoint, when...
Cyber-security experts are warning that criminals are hacking into other people’s machines to generate cryptocurencies for them. According to a Trend Micro report, school, charity and file-sharing websites have been found infected with a particular code that makes the visitor’s machine generate currency. That code turns the machine into a ‘miner’. Mining is a colloquial term for generating crypto-currency. By creating a huge network of machines, hackers can quickly generate huge amounts of money....
What is Wordfence? How it Protects Your WordPress Site? Wordfence is a WordPress security plugin that helps you protect your website against security threats like hacking, malware, DDOS and brute force attacks. It comes with a website application firewall, which filters all traffic to your website and blocks suspicious requests. It has a malware scanner that scans all your WordPress core files, themes, plugins, and upload folders for changes and suspicious code....
Installation of cPanel in CentOS and RHEL 6 First insure that OS version on which your Linux box is running, to do so, please use following command. # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.4 (Final) If you don’t have the latest version, please update your OS to its latest version, In CentOS and RHEL, we can simply do it with yum package installer. # yum update Once updates completes, and then check the...
Installation of cPanel/WHM on Centos 7 Before installing cPanel you must have Perl installed on your server as cPanel is written in Perl. To install Perl on your system, login as root user and run the following command. yum -y install perl Now you will need to set the hostname for your server. A hostname is a FQDN or Fully Qualified Domain Name which will be used to identify your server. For example...
