Category «Security Advisories»
Software vulnerability notifications and advisories
Disable CDP on your networking gear
CDP is a network discovery protocol for Cisco equipment which allows it to discover adjacent networking gear, and is enabled by default. The 0-day vulnerabilities found by Armis takes advantage of it being enabled to effect complete compromise on affected gear.
Isolate multiple domains on cPanel account
To start, cPanel is most known for the ability to manage your domain settings in one place, but you can also host multiple domains on a single account, if it’s cost prohibitive enough to open a second account. This presumes you have the ability to have additional Addon Domains with your hosting package. The ability to isolate your domains is key to maintaining the account security to keeps your apps not only secure from the public, but secure against other apps on the account as well.
How to protect against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploit
This guide has links and further reading to stay safe against the new Intel/ARM CPU bug known as Meltdown and Spectre.
Checksum verification of WordPress
In this post, we’ll review how to conduct a checksum verification of WordPress from SSH with WP-CLI.