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What is the best file permission for .user.ini in hosting folder?
My hoster placed a .user.ini in my public_html. What is the recommended file permission be? Now it's 644.
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How do hosting providers prevent the compromise of one website from causing the compromise of another one?
Could one create a vulnerable website on purpose to attack a server of a hosting provider?
So in the question above which I recently asked we came to the conclusion that preventing one vulnerable ...
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Could one create a vulnerable website on purpose to attack a server of a hosting provider?
Is it possible for a vulnerability in one application to be exploited to attack another application on the same server?
So according to the answer to the question above it is possible that when one ...
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Identifying website attack type (Meuhy.php)
We have a few sites hosting on a Media Temple (MT) shared server. This morning, we noticed that some of our website were down. Upon investigation, we realized that they had been compromised. The ...
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Host header attacks: Possible exploits
We have an API server hosted with amazon elb. The server has only one virtual host and hence it doesn't enforce Host header. But if we manually add a Host header along with the request with a valid ...
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shared hosted web server used as forward proxy
When setting up personal anonymous forward proxy server, different hosting can be chosen. In the case of shared hosting, web server, transformed into proxy server, shares it's IP with hundreds of ...
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Will sabotaging a shared web hosting account threaten the security of sibling accounts being that they are shared on the same server?
Will sabotaging a shared web hosting account threaten the security of sibling accounts being that they are shared on the same server?
Whether it it be through htaccess setups, posting login ...
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Preventing interaction among web application on a shared hosting account
I have multiple web application installed in separeted directories in a shared hosting account. My worry is if one application get hacked, attacker can use it to attack other applications too.
So, My ...
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Can other customers on shared hosting see requests from/to my site?
I installed a wiki on my shared webhosting (using Apache) account. This wiki is set to private (no read/edit/create rights for unauthorized users) and I'm the only one with an account.
The wiki ...
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How to keep a shared web hosting server secure?
What are the ways of keeping a shared LAMP server secure, assuming SSH access is available for every user?
Edit: I am mainly thinking of securing the server from the users themselves and between ...
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