PCI Compliance And Back Ports

I was recently hired to do a PCI compliance scan and complete the remedial work to bring it up to standard. This was on a CentOS5 box. The tool I was using to do the scanning was pretty good, but like all scanning tools plays “the numbers game.” This means it simply looks at the versions of certain services and flags it if that version is known to be vulnerable. In my case, Apache and...

External DNS at 1and1

If you have your DNS hosted in one place (say DNS Made Easy) but host your content on 1and1.com. 1and1 allows you to do this without transferring the domain to them. The problem is they appear to not set the DirectoryIndex directive for hosts using external DNS. This can be overcome with either creating or adding to the .htaccess file in your site’s root directory: DirectoryIndex...

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