The folder permissions and ownership is one key to the security of the websites and your codes. You have to keep them safe so that any hacker wont deface your websites or inject malware. These happens because of two reasons … [Read more...] about Safe permissions for files and folders in cPanel
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How to Prevent eMail Spoofing on a cPanel Server
eMail spoofing is becoming very common these days. Nearly all abusive e-mail messages carry fake sender addresses. The victims od email spoofing, whose addresses are being abused often suffer from the consequences, because their reputation gets diminished and they have to disclaim liability for the abuse, or waste their time sorting out misdirected bounce messages. To help … [Read more...] about How to Prevent eMail Spoofing on a cPanel Server
How to Update ClamAV and it’s Virus Definitions on a cPanel Server
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an antivirus software toolkit. It is supported by cPanel and you can install it from WHM. To install ClamAV, login to WHM Main >> Plugins >> Configure ClamAV Scanner.To enable ClamAV Scanner:Select the check boxes corresponding to ClamAV. Click Save.This will install the ClamAV in your cpanel server. It may take a few … [Read more...] about How to Update ClamAV and it’s Virus Definitions on a cPanel Server
How to Monitor Services Using Chksrvd
Monitor services is one of the most important tasks of a sysadmin. cPanel comes with a self monitoring and alerting mechanism so that is a service goes down, it will try to restart it of its own and if that fails, the corresponding server admin will be notified. … [Read more...] about How to Monitor Services Using Chksrvd
Enhancing firewall in your cPanel server
Being a server admin, it is a vital part of the admin to protect their servers from different types of attacks. The most common one among them is the brute force attack, where the attacker tries to login to the server or email or any password protected area using trial and error method. The most common form of a brute force attack is a dictionary attack. A person who is trying … [Read more...] about Enhancing firewall in your cPanel server