Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Well, I have to say, this is quite a clever way of looking for potential targets!
We have a Chinese hacker (the IP is Chinese) who is apparantly checking all the IP addresses in our new block for vulnerabilities.
This is more impressive than the usual brute-force attacks we say day to ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Well, I'm very suprised, I would have expected to have been asked about this at least at some point over the last 4 years. We do not enable the PEAR library by default for any of our web hosting customers.
Suprised? Don't be, with major security flaws like this one is ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A little advanced warning here, PHP 6 is in development and the developers of PHP have decided to remove magic_quotes().
For those of you who don't speak fluent PHP, magic_quotes() is a feature built into PHP, designed primarily to protect websites from SQL injection techniques. Unfortunately, lots of developers have used ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Several of our customers have been in touch over the past few months wondering why they can't send email through our systems.
In literally 95% of these cases, it's because they have somehow been allocated an IP address that is tagged as belonging to a spammer.
Leading Edge Hosting use what's called ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
We have just completed a security update on one of our main servers and whilst we were performing the update we realised that there is a distinct lack of information out there concerning the security of PHP functions, and no good lists of functions that should be banned or switched ...
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