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malware

How to Install and Configure maldet (Linux Malware Detect – LMD)

Maldet is also known as Linux Malware Detect virus scanner for Linux. Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a Linux malware scanner released under the GNU GPLv2 license designed to address the threats in shared host environments. To extract malware that is actively used in attacks and generates signatures for detection, it uses threat data from …

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remove virtfs

How to safely remove virtfs on a cPanel Server and Disable Jailshell

If you’re on a cPanel server, you’ve probably noticed a sizable folder called ‘virtfs’ sitting in /home, which would appear at first to be using a ton of space. Your first inclination might be to delete it, but don’t! Most likely, the files in that folder are actually just hard links or bind mounts and …

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Install System Integrity Monitor (SIM) in Cpanel

Description: SIM is a system and services monitor for ‘SysVinit’ systems. It is designed to be intuitive and modular in nature, and to provide a clean and informative status system. It does this by consistently verifying that services are online, load averages are in check, and log files are at reasonable sizes. Many other SIM …

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mongodb

Install MongoDB – Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian

This tutorial covers steps to install MongoDB in CentOS 6.4, Ubuntu or Debian Operating System. Requirements Centos / Debian / Ubuntu installed on your server or your computer root privileges SSH access Basic Linux Working Skills MongoDB is a NoSQL open-source document database written in C++. Structure of MongoDB differs from the standard table-based relational one using …

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fail2ban

Block Network Probes using Fail2Ban

Requirements for fail2ban Debian/Ubuntu or CentOS installed Linux Server Fail2Ban installation on a server Configure Fail2Ban As it is made clear in installation instructions of Fail2Ban, you have to make a local copy of the configuration file and set all our custom changes in the configuration file. cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local SSH is monitored by default by …

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