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Featured Article 10 Steps to Securing your Server 10 Steps to Securing your Server
February 4, 2006 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.57 From 37 Voter(s)
10 Steps to Securing your Server is an easy to follow guide that everyone should use to secure the basics of a web server. Follow this guide to prevent your server from getting hacked.
 

CSF Install Guide - How To CSF Install Guide - How To
February 13, 2008 in by ramprage
Rating: Not Rated
We'll guide you through installing and configuring CSF - Config Server Firewall, a popular alternative to APF. CSF comes with LFD and works with or without cPanel.
 

Suhosin Install Guide Suhosin Install Guide
March 19, 2007 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.00 From 6 Voter(s)
Suhosin is the big brother to the Hardened-PHP patch which adds an extra level of protection to PHP. Installing Suhosin can be a bit confusing so we'll show you how it can be easily installed on Linux
 

APF Deny ALL for SSH Limit IP Connections APF Deny ALL for SSH Limit IP Connections
February 6, 2007 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 2.75 From 4 Voter(s)
APF firewall can deny ALL connections for ssh and allow only a single or select few of IPs to connect to your server. We'll guide you through DENY ALL with APF firewall.
 

PHP 4.4.4 Important Security Update PHP 4.4.4 Important Security Update
August 22, 2006 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 10.00 From 2 Voter(s)
PHP 4.4.4 and PHP 5.1.5 have been released. We urge anyone using any prior versions to update your PHP versions right away to fix a large number of security issues.
 

Close Open DNS Servers Close Open DNS Servers
March 16, 2006 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.69 From 26 Voter(s)
For those of you who check your nameservers and other DNS related issues using the popular site dnsreport you're probbaly seeing Fail Open DNS Servers. We'll show you have to fixed named to close open dns servers.
 

Securing PHP Securing PHP
March 8, 2006 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 2.66 From 83 Voter(s)
A lot of sites talk about securing PHP but just refer to different compiling options. I don't care about those, I want to secure php.ini itself so you don't have to recompile PHP to help make it more secure.
 

Preventing Brute Force Attacks Preventing Brute Force Attacks
April 15, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.17 From 118 Voter(s)
Blocking and preventing brute force attacks is one of the main things you want to do on your web server to add a layer of security. While someone might not be targeting your site or server specifically, they will have automated tools that will try to gues
 

Stop PHP nobody Spammers Stop PHP nobody Spammers
April 7, 2005 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.45 From 71 Voter(s)
PHP and Apache has a history of not being able to track which users are sending out mail through the PHP mail function from the nobody user causing leaks in formmail scripts and malicious users to spam from your server without you knowing who or where.
 

Changing APF log for TDP/UDP drops Changing APF log for TDP/UDP drops
August 27, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 9.80 From 5 Voter(s)
If youre tired of seeing your /var/log/messages log file full of dropped traffic from APF firewall then we have a solution! Well create a separate log file for TCP/UDP OUTPUT and drops which will leave your messages log nice and clean for easy browsing!
 

Root Check Root Check
August 25, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.80 From 10 Voter(s)
RootCheck scans the system looking for possible trojans ,scans the ports for malicious activity ,and checks for rootkits,and also the logs,permissions and more.
 

Compile 2.6.7 Kernel w/module-init-tools Compile 2.6.7 Kernel w/module-init-tools
July 8, 2004 in by Rack911
Rating: Average Rating : 8.94 From 17 Voter(s)
Wanted to try out the 2.6 edition kernel? Never knew how to do it? Well heres how! Includes everything from compiling the kernel to configuring your bootloader.
 

Rkhunter Installation Rkhunter Installation
June 27, 2004 in by Rack911
Rating: Average Rating : 8.24 From 38 Voter(s)
Rkhunter is a very useful tool that is used to check for trojans, rootkits, and other security problems.
 

Detect and Clean a hacked server T0rnkit Tutorial Detect and Clean a hacked server T0rnkit Tutorial
April 22, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.80 From 30 Voter(s)
Tornkit is a rootkit, a set of programs that is used by an intruder to have unrestricted access to a compromised Linux system. Tornkit is also attempts to hide its presence.
 

How to install KISS Firewall How to install KISS Firewall
April 2, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 5.17 From 6 Voter(s)
KISS My Firewall is a FREE iptables script designed for a typical web server. It takes advantage of the latest firewall technologies including stateful packet inspection and connection tracking. It also contains some preventative measures for port scann
 

How to Disable Telnet How to Disable Telnet
March 14, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.26 From 19 Voter(s)
Telnet sends clear text passwords and usernames through logins and should be disabled on all web servers and replaced with SSH.
 

How to install mod_security for Apache How to install mod_security for Apache
January 22, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.61 From 31 Voter(s)
This guide will show you how to install and configure mod_security, the intrusion detection and prevention engine for Apache web server with modsecurity.
 

How to install BFD (Brute Force Detection) How to install BFD (Brute Force Detection)
January 21, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.43 From 101 Voter(s)
This guide will show you how to install and configure BFD to protect your system from brute force login hack attempts providing brute force prevention.
 

How to install APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) How to install APF (Advanced Policy Firewall)
January 20, 2004 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.33 From 237 Voter(s)
This guide will show you how to install and configure APF firewall, one of the better known Linux firewalls available.
 

E-mail Alert on Root SSH Login E-mail Alert on Root SSH Login
December 8, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.82 From 49 Voter(s)
Want to be notified instantly when someone logs into your server as root? No problem, check out this nice tutorial on email notification for root logins.
 

Mask Your Web Server for Enhanced Security Mask Your Web Server for Enhanced Security
November 13, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 6.32 From 22 Voter(s)
Masking or anonymizing a Web server involves removing identifying details that intruders could use to detect your OS and Web server vendor and version. We will guide you how to hide this information to avoid a security risk.
 

Guide to Chkrootkit - checking for intruders Guide to Chkrootkit - checking for intruders
October 31, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.41 From 94 Voter(s)
Chkrootkit is a powerful tool to scan your Linux server for trojans. We'll show you how to install it, scan your server and setup a daily automated scanning job that emails you the report.
 

Creating a Welcome message for SSH logins Creating a Welcome message for SSH logins
October 31, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 7.81 From 69 Voter(s)
Did you ever want to change or create a new login message antime someone logs into SSH? We'll show you how it's done.
 

Disable Direct Root Logins Disable Direct Root Logins
October 28, 2003 in by ramprage
Rating: Average Rating : 8.78 From 115 Voter(s)
Allowing the root user to login directly is a major security issue, we'll show you how to disable it.
 

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