What is Greylisting? Greylisting is a new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level, but without resorting to heavyweight statistical analysis or other heuristical (and error-prone) approaches. Consequently, implementations are fairly lightweight, and may even decrease network traffic and processor load on your mailserver. Greylisting relies on the fact that most […]
Read MoreWARNING: Domain Transfer Scam from Domain Registry of America (via BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC dba NameJuice.com) Web24 Customer Care would like to warn domain registrants regarding another Domain Transferal scam. Domain Registry of America (DROA) are at it again with another Email Scam going out to all registrants of gTLD domain names offering to transfer […]
Read More“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength” – Eric Hoffer (1902 – 1983)” Whether it’s for personal or business use, understanding and exercising the basics of email standards can help avoid a lot of potential misunderstandings and can help us all communicate online a little better. This article serves as a general best-practices guide […]
Read MoreA fair few people know what DNS lookups are, Even without having to work in the IT industry. It basically converts the pretty, familiar and easy to understand (for us) “www.domain.com” into an IP Address, which computers can understand and direct traffic to. The Image below is from Verisign, and to make the understanding a […]
Read MoreThe world’s oldest intact computer just turned 60, quite the milestone! From ABC News: The world’s oldest intact computer is turning 60 in Victoria. The CSIRAC – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research organisation Automatic Computer – is housed in the state’s museum and has today been granted heritage listing as part of its birthday celebrations. […]
Read MoreAn exploit present in all x86_64 based Linux Operating System Kernels was recently uncovered which allows root access on any x86_64 based system with a kernel date prior to September 2010. Linux kernel updates have been released to patch this urgent vulnerability which effects only 64bit/x86_64 systems. If you are currently running an older kernel […]
Read MoreOn your keyboard, just hold down the “Ctrl” key (Command on Mac) & press the “F5? (function) key at the same time. While that works for 90%+ of users, it’s possible it won’t work for you (depending your computer and keyboard setup). Make sure your keyboard is set properly More and more keyboards are adding […]
Read MoreCustomers running Virtual or Dedicated Server plans with Linux who are using the Exim Mail Server software are advised to update immediately. If you are running cPanel, please update to the latest cPanel build which patches this exploit. Online resources for the root exploit for Exim For cPanel servers you can upgrade Exim by […]
Read MoreUndefined subroutine &Cpanel::Update::automatic_updates_enabled called at /scripts/upcp line 273. If some recent cPanel upgrade on your server are throwing errors like below : root@server [~]# /scripts/upcp /scripts/upcp syntax OK Running Futex Check/Fix……Done Undefined subroutine &Cpanel::Update::automatic_updates_enabled called at /scripts/upcp line 273. How to fix the Undefined Subroutine in cPanel error then this can be fixed by using […]
Read MoreJoab Jackson writes for Computerworld: Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer administrators far greater control over what end users can and can’t access. “Vsys is a tool for restricting access to privileged operations,” said Princeton University’s PlanetLab […]
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