Comodo Programs Manager is freeware from Comodo which allows users to manage System drivers and services, Windows Features, and Windows Updates, and Add/Remove Programs functionality under one hood. In other words, it saves time and allows easier access to most important Windows features. It offers a simple interface with the main functions listed and accessible [...]
In the UNIX or Linux environment, it is possible to asynchronously execute tasks at any desired time of the day, a feature made possible by the cron clock daemon. In the following text we will present some general information on how to use cron and its companion at, as well as some tips on avoiding [...]
ionCube produces leading tools for PHP source code protection to secure your PHP software from prying eyes and to combat software piracy. Featuring an advanced compiled-code encoding engine that translates source to highly efficient bytecodes, ionCube encoding tools deliver the ideal combination of maximum source code protection without sacrificing performance, reliability or language compatibility. In [...]
A firewall prevents all network access to your server (with certain exceptions that you will specify). You can configure a firewall on your VPS using the Webmin control panel. The iptables command will actually implement the firewall rules. Before you decide to set up a firewall, please consider… 1) Misconfiguring a firewall can prevent you [...]
Many VPS customers are surprised at the number of failed SSH login attempts to their servers. By just having a listening server on the Internet, you will get dozens or even hundreds of brute force login attempts each day. Most of these attempts come from automated scripts running on other compromised machines. If you are [...]
When you have a MySQL database and want to spread the data reads and writes across multiple servers, you can setup master-master replication. What this does is in almost-realtime copy all commands from each server to the other, each acting as both a Master and Slave server. This is NOT a good system for backups, [...]
Companies and ISPs often use caching in proxy servers to reduce the load on their networks. These proxy servers are often configured to proxy any port, with little regard to security. If nothing is blocking connections from the outside, it is possible to detect the vulnerable server by scanning the ports of a range of [...]
This time i want to share with you how to install Curl in PHP5 in Linux Environtment (I’m using Ubuntu 8.10) and using apache web server, but if you have any question to install php-curl in other environment, feel free to contact me of leave any comment, i will glad to help you. Okay, now [...]
This blog entry will explain how to encrypt a shell script on your linux or a Unix based system. Although there might be other ways to encrypt your shell script I found this one the most easiest to use. We will encrypt the script using the shc utility. I have been using this utility since [...]
Rookit hunter is probably one of the most useful applications that you can have installed on your cPanel VPS server. Although rootkits can’t be removed in most cases simply because they are installed into system files, RKHunter will still notify you of any rootkits that may exist in your system so that you can take [...]
