Disable Theme and Plugin Editors from WordPress

Security

This is a big problem, if customer using very weak password’s with default username’s like admin/administrator and etc. Even if you don’t use default username you can get it very easily. Get WordPress username https://wordpress.site/?author=1 This redirects your correct username author page and you can get easily correct username which is probably admin user. If … Read more

Disable Mod_Security on Directadmin server

Tutorial

If you decided to use Modsecurity on your server with DirectAdmin, there is sometimes a need to disable mod_security on server. Default custombuild installation, mod_security rules installed in: /etc/modsecurity.d/ Apache load’s ModSecurity modules and configuration in: /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-modsecurity.conf Disable mod_security Easiest way disable Modsecurity is disable apache to load ModSecurity module in https-modsecurity.conf file. Just add … Read more

Disable Password Authentication on Server

Tutorial

When Password-based authentication mechanism is active, meaning that your server is still exposed to brute-force attacks. We want to Disable Password Authentication on Server’s, where we use ssh access to console. Before completing the steps in this section, make sure that you either have SSH key-based authentication configured for the root account on server, or … Read more

Find and disable ModSecurity rule with SecRuleRemoveById

Find and disable ModSecurity rule

In this article we show how to find and disable ModSecurity rule that might be causing 406 errors on your websites on either your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. The rules that ModSecurity uses can help block potential attack attempts from malicious users, but sometimes it can also block legitimate requests, and knowing … Read more