ionCube was introduced in 2002 by ionCube Ltd. and is a software that allows you to protect your PHP scripts. There are many commercial scripts that are encoded with ionCube. To be able to run PHP files encoded by ionCube…
There are many situations when you might want to search for specific words in files. This can be obtained with the use of the Linux grep utility. With the grep utility you can search in a single file, but you…
wc is a Linux utility that allows you to get details about files - like how many lines, words etc a file has. The most useful options of the command are: -w, --words prints the number of worlds -l, --lines…
It's very easy in cPanel to add mod_security rules. It comes with one rule set (OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set) but you can also add other rule sets. For third-party rule sets, you will need a yaml file. For example,…
Sometimes it can be useful to know how to whitelist your clients' IPs or URIs of specific locations in mod_security. modsecuritty logo We recommend adding the rule presented below to the file /etc/apache2/conf.d/modsec/modsec2.user.conf . Notice that files might be modified…
The mod_evasive module protects your Apache webserver from DDoS attacks. mod_evasive GitHub page Sometimes, legit users can trigger mod_evasive and they will get a 403 HTTP message "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access this resource". In the Apache…
