Archive for the ‘Server administration’ Category

Hackers scanning IP ranges

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 ...

Billing Systems

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

We've recently started to test WHMCS as a potential replacement for modernbill and I have to say, I'm quite impressed! WHMCS comes with an import script to transfer everything over from modernbill, and with only minimal configuration I have it running side-by-side with modernbill! All the automated functionality works like a ...

The low hanging fruit of PHP

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 ...

How to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Ok, I can never remember how to do these off the top of my head, so what better way to keep track of how to do it than to drop it into our blog. This only applies to Linux servers. This won't mean much to anyone who isn't a server administrator, so ...