Removing WHM Disk Space Errors

If your server is approaching 99% disk space, your users may be aware of this before you are. At the 1% free margin, the following error will pop up when accessing certain features in cPanel and WHM:

Upgrading OpenSSH on CentOS 5

If you’ve taken a peek at your PCI scan results lately, you may have noticed that your scan provider is now requiring OpenSSH 4.5 or higher – a version that is not currently available in the CentOS 5 repositories. A Yum update isn’t going to help you much there.

PHP Security Tips – Securing PHP by hardening PHP

When it comes to security, ignorance is definitely not blissful. There are several methods to increase the security of your PHP environment.
In this article I will discuss how to secure PHP by hardening PHP 5 configuration.
1. allow_url_fopen ( enabled by default )
This directive allows PHP's file functions ( file_get_contents, include and require statements ) to retrieve data from remote locations, like FTP or HTTP.
If an attacker can manipulate the arguments to those functions, they can use a URL under their control as the argument and run their own remote scripts. The vulnerability is called Remote file inclusion or RFI.