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Credit Card Data Still Unsafe Despite PCI

Today in the Wall Street Journal, there is an article regarding credit-card security failures. Despite passing certification for the PCI Data Security Standard, several major companies had security breaches. Though…
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Managed Dedicated Servers

rackAID now provides Managed Dedicated Servers. Through a partnership with Softlayer, we now provide manged dedicated systems. We layer together Softlayer’s hardware with our support expertise to provide you with…

How to Stop Email Backscatter

Email Bounces In the past few weeks, we have seen a sharp rise in email bounces. These bounces are for emails that the person did not send. While there are…

Plesk not Showing All Domains?

Assuming you didn’t delete them, they’re still there! Likely someone (ok probably us) was logged in as the admin and using the handy search box just above the domain listing…
plesk tips

Hackers use Cron to Re-Hack Your Server

Got some hacker program that keeps relaunching itself? Cannot find the source? Well, you may want to check cron. Recently, we’ve seen several attacks where hackers have setup cron jobs…
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Memory Mirroring to the Rescue

Recently, we had a server crash and then a number of issues arose. One problem was that a add-in 3ware RAID card was detected prior to the SATA drive. As…
Linux Server Management Tips
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