DDoS protection guide – Part 1

What is a DDoS attack ? DDoS, short for Distributed Denial of Service, is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems — which are usually infected with a Trojan (70% of the time)– are used to target a single system causing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack....

Apache error – No space left on device !

Facing the following error on Apache ? Apache: [emerg] (28)No space left on device: Couldn’t create accept lock [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec) [crit] (28) No space left on device: mod_rewrite: Parent could not create...

Apache error_log for a domain filled with PHP errors ?

There are situations in which the error_log associated with a domain fills up a good part of the disk space consumed. Lets find what are they logging ! Is it something like, [Date America/New_York] PHP Strict Standards: Non-static method JDispatcher::getInstance()...

SymLinks Attacks and prevention !

The vulnerability with Symlinks and Apache is a known cause of attack. Initially, the attacker will find a compromised ‘single’ website or domain which has got any vulnerable scripts or 3rd party applications or any themes used in it and try to get access to the...

Issue with parsing of PHP pages !

Are you facing the scenario in which the PHP page is getting downloaded to your local machine, instead of showing it ? For example, when www.domain.com/index.php is  given in browser, the file index.php gets downloaded rather than displaying it. This is an issue where...