Install Cloud Linux in Cent OS with cPanel

If you wish to convert from CentOS 5.x to CloudLinux, have already installed cPanel & WHM, and own a CloudLinux license key, run these commands:

1.   wget http://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/sources/cln/cpanel2cl
2.   sh cpanel2cl -k $key
3.   Replace $key with your license key.
4.   reboot
5.   /scripts/easyapache --build

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Advantages of SSD

A solid-state drive (SSD) (sometimes improperly referred to as a "solid-state disk" or "electronic disk") is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. SSD technology uses electronic interfaces compatible with traditional block input/output (I/O) hard disk drives. SSDs do not employ any moving mechanical components, which distinguishes them from traditional magnetic disks such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or floppy disks, which are electromechanical devices containing spinning disks and movable read/write heads.

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Samsung Galaxy Phones May Be Vulnerable to Malicious Wiping

Samsung Galaxy SII and SIII smartphones might be at a huge security risk when opening links with QR technology, NFC or push notifications, according to a new report.

ZDNet is reporting that Samsung devices with TouchWiz’s user interface for Android could find their smartphones to be completely wiped clean when exposed to a malicious code embedded on a webpage.

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Security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar demonstrated at a security conference last week in Argentina the weaknesses built into Samsung’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), which allows message communication to go from the phone to the application server. Samsung’s TouchWiz communicates with USSD and appears to be affected, he said.

Borgaonkar demoed how a hacker could take advantage of the vulnerability and attack a user who accesses on a bad link. Hackers can then remotely wipe the handset and SIM card in just a few minutes, and re-set the device to factory mode. This happens because of malicious code embedded within a website.

It’s important to understand that simply visiting a website with this malicious code from your mobile device won’t trigger the potential attack. Instead, users must access the site from a QR code, SMS, NFC or WAP message.

Samsung has not yet responded to a request for comment. For a full look at Borgaonkar’s presentation, check out the video below.

Source:http://mashable.com/2012/09/25/samsung-galaxy-smartphones-might-be-vulnerable-to-malicious-wiping/

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Free Website Monitoring with SMS and Tweet alerts

The one big advantage with Google Docs is that it can be configured to check your website status every minute and thus you’ll instantly know if your site is down. And it’s free.

The Google Docs sheet will monitor your website in the background at all times and will send an email alert whenever it has trouble accessing the website. If the issue is resolved, you’ll get another notification saying “all’s well.” If you are a tech genius you can also make a twitter account to alert you which will enable you to monitor the downtime history.

If you want to configure this for your server you can do it in 4 easy steps.
You can find the steps here.

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Maldet Install, Setup and Syntax

Maldet is a security software usually used in linux to scan for vulnarabilities or malware check. To install maldet follow the steps below:

cd /usr/local/src/
rm -vrf maldetect-*
wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz
tar -xzf maldetect-current.tar.gz
cd maldetect-*
sh ./install.sh
maldet --update-ver
maldet --update

You may also want to consider activating the many features of maldet, for example:

 email_alert=1
 email_addr="root"
 quar_hits=1
 scanthreads=5
 maxfilesize="1024k"

To edit these options, $EDITOR /usr/local/maldetect/conf.maldet
To scan all users public_html give the command below:
maldet -a /home?/?/public_html

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