I had been having a problem with one of my cPanel servers where Exim was sending outbound email from one of the IP’s dedicated to a hosting account, rather than from the primary IP address of the server. This problem was completely baffling to me as all of the research I had done on setting […]
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Blue Host corrupts full cPanel backups after 1GB on Site Backup Pro
* Caution * Always verify your full cPanel backups from Blue Host when the downloaded file is more than 500MB in size. Well, actually, you should always verify your backups, no matter what. This has been a major problem with Blue Host for at least a full year now, as I write this on 2/9/2016. I have […]
WHM / cPanel spam bypassing mx record
I’m running several WHM/cPanel systems, and am using a dedicated Barracuda anti-spam firewall for all incoming and outgoing email to these systems. I have recently had the problem where spammers are not honoring the MX record for the domains hosted on the cPanel systems. The spammers are connecting directly to the websites IP address to […]
The application Samsung keypad (process com.sec.android.inputmethod.axt9) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again
The following error cropped up after I tried connecting a Verbatim Mobile Wireless Keyboard (model #97537) to my Samsung Droid smart phone. The application Samsung keypad (process com.sec.android.inputmethod.axt9) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again Here is the model phone and OS that I have running on it. Manufacturer : SamsungModel : Samsung I405 Stratosphere (SCH-I405) […]
Windows cannot open this program because the license enforcement system has been tampered with or become corrupted
When attempting to install Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 12.1 RU1 or MP1 I received this error. “Windows cannot open this program because the license enforcement system has been tampered with or become corrupted”. This was on a Windows Server 2003 Web Edition with Service Pack 2 intalled. After noticing that the executable’s of other Symantec Endpoint […]
ldap_bind returns success with invalid username password combo
I have been running a simple ldap_bind() php script to verify the username/password combination of Active Directory users before presenting a simple menu to them. Unfortunately, as I’ve discovered, anyone can get the menu by entering a valid Active Directory group name and ANY string of characters for the password. In my case, my security […]
VMware, ReadyNAS, NFS, and extremely high latency
I have spent plenty of time researching and dealing with this problem of extremely high latency between my ESXi VMware hosts and the NFS datastores on my ReadyNAS 2100. It’s ridiculous how stupidly simple the solution was, and how not one of the posts I’ve found in a Google search have pointed this simple setting […]
To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed.
Recently I unexpectedly encountered the following error on one of my cPanel VPS systems running WordPress. To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host. This error was encountered both when trying […]
SonicWall NSA 240 stateful inspection verification with nmap and tcpdump for pci
Item 1.3.6 of PCI DSS is this : Verify that the firewall performs stateful inspection (dynamic packet filtering). (Only established connections should be allowed in, and only if they are associated with a previously established sesion.) According to nmap documentation, you can test for a stateful packet inspection firewall by using the following command. In […]
what happened to wp-recaptcha?
I have no idea what happened to this WordPress plugin. The WordPress website indicates that it is not a valid plugin address anymore. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/ And the developers website is missing the DNS entry, so it’s not coming up. http://www.blaenkdenum.com/ For now, I’ve uploaded my latest copy of the “wp-recaptha” plugin from one of my sites. […]