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How to Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu? Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that provides a free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. The process of obtaining and installing a certificate is fully automated on both Apache and Nginx. The following steps describe how to configure Let’s Encrypt SSL... Continue Reading

BIND DNS servers versions 9.1.0 to 9.9.7-P1 and 9.10.2-P2 allow a remote attacker to exploit an error in handling TKEY queries to launch a Denial of Service DoS vulnerability in BIND DNS service, server crashing. You should consider patching if the cPanel/WHM, Odin Plesk, or DirectAdmin servers are not patched. There is no workaround to... Continue Reading

A strong password must have 14 characters which should include one special character, one number and one uppercase and one lowercase. Password shouldn’t be predictable and shouldn’t be based on dictionary words. Some administrators / non-techie users do not understand how important Debian and Ubuntu distros are strong passwords and security. These administrators / non-techie... Continue Reading