Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL Musings
November 8, 2009 | In: FTP, Networking, Server Security, Windows
Source MSFTPSVC Event ID 8: FTP Server could not create a client worker Thread for user at host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. The connection to this user is terminated the data is the error. (No error Code) Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the host attempting to...
October 26, 2009 | In: Application Security, Certifications, Server Security
It has not been long that I've become involved on many a client requests to make their servers PCI compliant. More often than not they would just pass onto us at least a 30 page report of what's needed to be done to become "PCI Compliant". This would...
May 20, 2009 | In: Apache, MySQL, PHP, Server Security
Hosting accounts being compromised has been a common incident, however a sudden surge of this variant is quite alarming. This trojan does not target any particular software or script and is commonly exploited from a users computer where he usually FTP...
December 14, 2008 | In: Linux, Networking, Server Security
I was recently investigating a LAMP application bottleneck. Part of which was to monitor web server entry points during peak hours. Looking into segregate connections and what each clients are actually doing I needed some advanced netstat know-how to get...