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Security: Disable direct root SSH login

January 14, 2013July 25, 2020 Andy

In the Linux/Unix/*BSD and their various flavours, the “root” user is the most powerful user on the whole system. If anyone gains access to this user, they can literally do anything, including wiping the whole […]

cPanel CSRF security issue

August 4, 2009 Andy

Over the weekend, an announcement was made by security experts that the popular web host control panel, cPanel is vulnerable to CRFS (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. The attacks can happen when visiting malicious web sites […]