Vulnerability fixed in WordPress Elementor Pro plugin – How cPGuard handles it

The vulnerability – High severity vulnerability fixed in WordPress Elementor Pro plugin As many of you are aware already, there is a critical vulnerability reported in the WordPress Elementor Pro plugin, which is installed on millions of websites. Though they have already released a patched version already, there are still many websites left unpatched, and … Read more

What is ModSecurity and why do we need it ?

What is ModSecurity and why do we need it

Web applications are often flawed and under constant attacks, so we have to implement some special security for our servers. ModSecurity is a valuable tool for enhancing security by detecting and preventing various types of attacks and vulnerabilities What is ModSecurity? ModSecurity is an open-source web-based firewall application (or WAF) that is designed to provide … Read more

How to Install Nginx with ModSecurity v3.0

Nginx with ModSecurity

In this article, we are discussing about ModSecurity v3.0 and will show you how to install ModSecurity v3.0 for the Nginx web server. If you are new to ModSecurity, start by reading our article: What is ModSecurity, and why do we need it? First we can look what’s new in ModSecurity 3.0 Redesigned to work … Read more

Joomla Security – Top 10 tips to secure your website

Tutorial

You might be familiar with JOOMLA!. It is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. Behalf of its excellence JOOMLA had secured several awards. It is based on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS that allows you to build powerful online applications. The … Read more

cPGuard – Essential Security Suite for cPanel Servers

cPGuard

cPGuard is an essential security addon for web hosting servers to help administrators to fight against malware threats and injections. As it exclusively works based on File System changes ( no more mod_security or FTP hooks dependency alone ), we can detect and scan any real-time changes on the server. In addition to malware/virus scanning, … Read more

Why choose Malware Expert Commercial ModSecurity Rules ?

ModSecurity

No matter how well a web server is configured, it is useless if it’s not properly secured. It’s a famous saying, ‘a chain is as strong as its weakest link’. As a system admin you have to address all vulnerabilities of your server. Since one single untreated vulnerability will be exploited by an attacker and … Read more

How to Securing Web Server

Tutorial

Here in this tutorial we are talking about the basics of the steps required when securing Web server. Hacking is regularly performed by automated scripts written to scour the Internet in an attempt to exploit known website security issues in software. Here are 8 basic tips to help keep your server safe secure and online. … Read more

Processing phases of Modsecurity

Tutorial

ModSecurity works on a powerful language of rules and its API allows monitoring of HTTP(S) that is coming in and out of your web server, to keep your web applications up and running all the time. This article is written to show how ModSecurity protects web applications running on Apache Web Server. The below diagram … Read more

How SecRemoteRules working ?

Tutorial

ModSecurity SecRemoteRules directive allows the user to load rules from a remote server. Requirements Internet connection ModSecurity at least 2.9.x How SecRemoteRules Works 1. When HTTP daemon starts, it loads the configuration files. 2. Configuration files have the SecRemoteRules directive, which tries to connect the Remote Server load rules. 3. When the connection is created … Read more

WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Cloud Web Application Firewalls Cloudflare Cloudflare’s enterprise-class web application firewall protects your Internet property from common vulnerabilities like SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, and cross-site forgery requests with no changes to your existing infrastructure. Read more – https://www.cloudflare.com/ AWS WAF AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common … Read more