December, 2007 Archive

Upgrading OpenSSL on a CPanel / WHM Server – Basic How to guide

CPanel regularly lags behind the latest versions of some of its software components. For me in particular this delay in upgrading OpenSSL was causing security issues for a customers dedicated server. CPanels security manager was advising us that that a) the build we were using was hack free (not the case) b) indicating that the [...]

December 19th, 2007  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , ,   |  Posted in Web Platforms  |  No Comments »
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Preventing HTTP TRACE Method Cross Site Scripting Attacks

What is a cross site scripting attack?:
“Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a simple idea at heart: the attacker loads exploitative HTML, including a client-side script, into a web site, typically one which allows public submissions and which does not properly quote HTML tags. Any user of the site who reads the story loads the exploit into [...]

December 19th, 2007  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: ,   |  Posted in Web Platforms  |  No Comments »
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