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SECURITY ADVISORY: Official Horde Update to 3.1.7 and upgrades to cPanel's PHP application security model
Summary: The Horde webmail application framework has been updated to 3.1.7. Upgrades have been made in cPanel’s PHP application security model. Description: The Horde webmail application framework has been updated to 3.1.7 for the official fix to the previously announced arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability. cPanel has also made upgrades in …
SECURITY ALERT: Horde arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability.
An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability has been discovered in the Horde webmail application. At present, we can confirm that this security vulnerability in question affects Horde 3.1.6 and earlier. Based on incomplete information at this time, we also believe this affects Horde Groupware 1.0.4 and earlier as well (cPanel does …
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Tagged: Horde arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability, security
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Components of Random JavaScript Toolkit Identified
cPanel announced today that it’s security team has identified several key components of a hack known as the Random JavaScript Toolkit. The systems affected by this hack appear to be Linux® based and are running a number of different hosting platforms. While this compromise is not believed to be specific …
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Tagged: Components of Random JavaScript Toolkit Identified, security
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cPanel 11.24.5
Update for Changelog
cPanel Security Advisory: CVE 2007-4022
Summary Updated builds that resolve a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability are available Security Rating This vulnerability is rated as trivial by the cPanel Security Team Description The /frontend/x/htaccess/changepro.html is used by the cPanel X theme to display status of applying password protection to web-accessible directories. The “resname” query variable is …
10 Tips for making your cPanel and WHM servers more secure
Please note that these tips are suggestions only and cPanel takes no responsibility for modifications to individual servers, or the security practices of individual servers. Server security is a collection of compromises, as any server that allows connections could be insecure. These tips are to be followed at your own …
Getting the most out of your system's firewall.
Overview There are many different firewalls that are installed by default on Linux systems (ipfw, apf, iptables). This article is designed to help you get the most out of your system firewall software when using cPanel and WHM. cPanel and WHM install and manage a number of different services on …
Using Public Key Authentication for SSH and transfers
Overview It is very important to control who has access to your server. A great tool for locking down access to your server is requiring the use of public key authentication for SSH access. Public key authentication uses a set of two keys, a private key, and a public key …
cPHulk makes brute force attacks melt like butter
Overview We’ve all been faced with the problem of weak passwords. As much as you inform users about password security, they want to use something they can easily remember. So, we end up with passwords like ‘ilovejohn’ and ‘toyota90210′. Even with the new password strength meters in cPanel, it is …
Host Access Control keeps unwanted guests out
Overview The best principle of security is to not offer something to be broken into. That’s also the theory behind Host Access Control. Here, you can tune access permissions to the services on your server. New for cPanel 11, Host Access Control allows you to specify what IPs you’d like …
