 | A vulnerability in Plesk, a configuration tool for web servers and web hosting, may divulge Plesk's system password. The only thing you need to do is look for phpinfo and another string in a search in Yahoo or Google. Your password is then displayed in the hits along with data for the PHP and server configuration. |
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Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Services (built into Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003) and Windows XP’s Remote Desktop, which is based on Terminal Services, provide an easy, convenient way for administrators to implement thin computing within an organization or for users to connect to their XP desktops from a remote computer and run applications or access files. But what about security? What are the security issues involved in using terminal services/remote desktop? Is it safe to use this type of remote connection to work on confidential or sensitive data? In this article, we will take a look at Windows Terminal Services/Remote Desktop security and the steps you can take to make your terminal server and terminal sessions more secure. |
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Most people know how problematic protection against SYN denial of service attacks can be. Several methods, more or less effective, are usually used. In almost every case proper filtering of packets is a viable solution. In addition to creating packet filters, the modification of the TCP/IP stack of a given operating system can be performed by an administrator. This method, the tuning of the TCP/IP stack in various operating systems, will be described in depth in this article. |
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