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Heartbleed SSL vulnerability and how UNIXy handled the crisis on behalf of our clients

Starting two days ago, we went through every one of our clients’ servers and updated OpenSSL to the latest patched version.

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in Break-Fix, Business, Security | 105 Words | 16 Webmentions | Comment

Challenges Facing Bitcoin in Web Hosting

You can make payments using Bitcoin or Litecoin but you must first initiate a one-time transaction using one of the conventional payment methods. From then on forward you are permitted to pay with Bitcoin or Litecoin.

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in Business, Challenge, Future, Interesting, Security | 294 Words

WHMCS and the AES_ENCRYPT vulnerability / exploit. Hooks to stop AES_ENCRYPT account registration

This hook will merely prevent some sign ups that attempt to exploit the vulnerability. It’s essentially there so you don’t waste too much time deleting fake AES_ENCRYPT sign up accounts.

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in Break-Fix, Business, Security | 217 Words

Stopping WordPress wp-login.php bot attacks with Varnish page throttling

The new rate-limit feature of the cPanel Varnish Plugin has got Wordpress’ wp-login.php attacking bots beat badly! Here’s how you can block those bad bots with a couple of clicks

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in Challenge, Performance, Security | 252 Words 32 Webmentions

cPanel Varnish Plugin version 1.8.4 is out! Check it out…

Tweet Varnish plugin version 1.8.4 sports a new crucial feature: the ability to fend off WordPress wp-login.php bot attacks with Rate Limit. This release also addresses several bugs affecting the Varnish End User Features option.

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in Challenge, Continuity, Interesting, Performance, Security, Uncategorized | 46 Words

curl: (77) Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?). Resolved.

Curling an SSL website can fail on certain servers. The error string is: curl: (77) Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?). Here’s the fix.

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in Challenge, Interesting, Security | 142 Words 5 Webmentions

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