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The Quality Assurance team of cPanel discovered a bug within the SpamAssassin ruleset that will mark messages sent in the year 2010 (that’s today) and beyond with a higher spam score than expected. This bug can result in legitimate mail being flagged as spam.
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Email, Operating Systems, Plugins, Scripting & Coding, Software, Spam, Spam Protection, cPanel
In recent weeks there has been an increasing number of attackers exploiting a vulnerability with insecure osCommerce installations, which allows admin access without a password usually resulting in spam mail-outs to your users.
As always, it is highly important to stay on top of security updates with all scripts, such as shopping carts and also to be proactive and ensure that you are taking adequate measures to secure your installation.
There are several useful threads discussing recent vulnerabilities for the different release versions of osCommerce on the osCommerce community forums including the following topic with updated reference information for securing your osCommerce installation:
How to Secure your osCommerce Site – http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=313323
Your WordPress database contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written. There are many reasons why this could happen and not all are things you can control. But what you can do is back up your data. After all, it is important. Right?
Below are instructions to back up your WordPress Site and your WordPress Database. In addition, support is provided online at the WordPress Support Forum to help you through the process.
Making backups is essential because problems inevitably occur and you need to be in a position to take action when disaster strikes. Spending a few minutes to make an easy, convenient backup of your database will allow you to spend even more time being creative and productive with your website.
Matt Cutts Talks Communication Strategy
One thing that Google is pretty good at is providing resources for webmasters to learn from. The regular videos from Matt Cutts in which he answers user-submitted questions are no different. It just happens to be this very topic that is addressed in the latest YouTube upload.
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Feeds, Google, HTML, News, Scripting & Coding, Search, Web Hosting News
The Joomla Project has announced the release of Joomla 1.5.14, which contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue. Instead of waiting for the normal 6 to 8-week release cycle, this release has been made available to users now and we recommend all users of Joomla to upgrade.
You can find the latest release or appropriate upgrade package by following the link below.
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5244-joomla-1514-released.html
CMS, Joomla, PHP Applications, Scripting & Coding, Security, Web Development
As its custom-built file system strains under the weight of an online empire it was never designed to support, Google is brewing a replacement.
Apparently, this overhaul of the Google File System is already under test as part of the “Caffeine” infrastructure the company announced earlier this week.
In an interview with the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), Google’s Sean Quinlan says that nearly a decade after its arrival, the original Google File System (GFS) has done things he never thought it would do.
Please find attached the new important Fantastico software security updates for your cPanel Hosting account
Please always keep your scripts save and secure and up-to-date to the newest version to prevent server and system compromise, which would not just affect you , but lots of other clients!
Best Regards and thanks you for your cooperation.
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With this great little tool, now you can monitor your Linux based server easily on the go, right from your iPhone.
Bjango software’s iStat application provides a tool to monitor both your local iPhone performance stats, including the ability to free memory, as well as monitor your remote servers(Mac or Linux based) vital statistics. You can easily see memory usage, disk space, uptime & load averages and can also use the utility to ping servers and perform trace routes.
Plugins, Science & Tech, Scripting & Coding, Software, cPanel, iPhone
Updates for Drupal versions 6.13 and 5.19 have been released this week with a host of maintenance fixes as well as some critical security vulnerabilities which have been fixed.
As always, upgrading and keeping your installations up to date is highly recommended. As always follow the Drupal upgrading procedures with a current and tested backup of your site.
CMS, PHP Applications, Scripting & Coding, Security, Web Development, drupal
Here at AUSWEB we have a huge number of users running WordPress websites from personal blogs, to business oriented websites and even us here on the AUSWEB Blog!
Thanks to the huge community of WordPress users there exists a huge pool of custom scripting, plugin and theme/design resources out there for you to add various features to your blog. Often overlooked however are some of the more recent in-built features for WordPress such as shortcodes which allow you to easily call php functions within your posts, thus saving time by speeding up repeated tasks.
Blogging, CMS, Scripting & Coding, Web Development, Wordpress
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