Sometimes your website’s security (or your entire web server’s) can be at risk because of malicious people. And it’s not necessarily a user that’s attacking your system; it could be an automated script that just “found” your server.
Attacks are not always in the attempt of breaking in your system. It could be a DoS (Denial [...]

When another website links directly to your files, it is called HotLinking. And when a website is hotlinking your files, it uses your bandwidth and storage space. Even worse, chances are the visitor downloading the file will never know about your website.
The good news is that you can prevent this using cPanel.
This tutorial assumes that [...]

Just over a year ago, I got my web server hacked twice: the first time because of a customer’s phpBB forum and the second time because of a flaw in a control panel I didn’t take time to upgrade (the control panel was VHCS).
Since then, I am using only cPanel hosting since it’s a lot [...]

While this is a well know security measure, I still see so many Linux servers that allow root login through SSH that I thought I’d post it here.
Before you make change to your Linux box, make sure that you’ve got a normal user account created otherwise you’ll lock yourself out unless you’ve got physical access [...]

Yesterday I wrote a post on how to protect your webserver against brute force attacks using APF and BFD. If you are using WHM, there’s similar alternative using cPHulk.
cPHulk is a brute force protection system developped by the cPanel team and is exclusive to cPanel / WHM control panels. It has been integrated with cPanel [...]

In computer security, a brute force attack is a way to gain access to a remote server’s resources by trying multiple combinations of logon names and passwords until a valid one is found. Most of the time, this type of attack is performed by a script which uses a list of the most common-known usernames [...]