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Securing Kloxo lxadmin with iptables firewall

December 18th, 2010 1 Comment

Iptables is a default firewall available in all linux flavors, and widely used to secure servers. If you are running kloxo, and want to use iptables to secure your box, then here are the basic rules which you can add in your iptables. # Clear rules iptables -t filter -F iptables -t filter...




Securing server from SYN flooding DOS attack

December 18th, 2010 0 Comments

As the internet is becoming larger day by day, therefore security risks for your servers are also increasing. If your server is connected to internet and is hosting some good high traffic and popular websites, then there are high chances that you get SYN flooding. SYN flooding is a kind of DOS...

How to find process root in Linux

November 10th, 2010 0 Comments

If you find a process creating load on your linux machine, and you want to find the application, file or script which is running this process and ps aux command is your friend. Suppose, a php process is running and creating load, you can run ps aux | grep php It will show the the path to file...

Disabling Dr web notifications

September 22nd, 2010 1 Comment

Edit /etc/drweb/drweb_qmail.conf to stop receiving DrWeb notification messages… [VirusNotifications] SenderNotify = no AdminNotify = no RcptsNotify =no Also, there are many other configuration options for the notifications, you may configure them as you wish. Then restart DrWeb Service to...

Mount reiserfs partitions on CentOS

September 19th, 2010 1 Comment

CentOS use ext3 file system, and it do not support reiserfs. Therefore if you try to mount a drive with reiserfs partition, it give error mount: fs type reiserfs not supported by kernel It's possible to see what filesystems are supported by running this command: cat /proc/filesystems On my...

How to secure SSH in your server ?

May 15th, 2010 0 Comments

1) Set a very strong password, keep it in your mind but dont write in somewhere. 2) Disable direct root login emacs /etc/ssh/sshd_config Search for #PermitRootLogin yes Set it as PermitRootLogin no Restart ssh service sshd restart 3) Limit user login AllowUsers username Restart...

why sites suddenly stopped working in dedicated/virtual private servers

March 17th, 2010 0 Comments

VeriSign has made some changes recently which are applied since March 1, 2010.  You can read detail by clicking here How do I fix it? You need to log in to your control panel and modify the affected domain name's zone file, using the table below as an example. To Modify or Add DNS Records in...

ip_conntrack table is full and dropping packets

March 12th, 2010 0 Comments

Last day one of our server had an attack, attack was not so big but still server was unresponsive because of this. After some research I found that this is because of iptables which are being load while handling so much traffic. Then I found a good article on the same issue which you can read by...

Installing & configuring shorewall firewall in Ubuntu/Debian

February 5th, 2010 5 Comments

Shore line firewall known as "Shorewall", it is a very high level firewall and very easy to install and ocnfigure How to install :- sudo apt-get install shorewall configuring shorewall startup service :- nano /etc/default/shorewall #Now simply change the line below from 0 to 1 startup =...

Browser security handbook by Google

November 15th, 2009 0 Comments

Browser security handbook is released by Google, and google has described it as "a comprehensive, 60-page document meant to provide Web application developers and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to several hundred key security properties and sometimes counterintuitive...

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