What Is CISPA?

Last Updated on Monday, 4 June 2012 05:04 Written by Arian Jahansouz Friday, 25 May 2012 12:00

The official position of Arvixe is against CISPA. This is simply an educational article informing blog readers about the CISPA bill and its potential impact on the average Internet user. 

So it seems that the threat of SOPA and PIPA has passed. Arvixe explained what SOPA was and took a stance against the act in this article.

But have you heard about CISPA? CISPA is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act and it actually passed through the House of Representatives on April 26th.

While SOPA focused more on copyright issues, CISPA aims to “track cyber threats.” The bill allows for government agencies and private companies to all be allowed to share private information about cyber threats. No one can deny that cyber threats have certainly been on the rise. We live in a world where most of our daily activities and private information is online, so criminals and vandals have turned towards the Internet to achieve their goals. While CISPA actually does have the potential of being a good thing, the question simply becomes: “what is considered a ‘cyber threat’?”

With CISPA, a cyber threat is anything that makes “efforts to degrade, disrupt or destroy” vital networks. Also, a cyber threat could be anything that can be taken as a “threat or misappropriation” towards information that is privately owned or owned by the government.

How to Use Leech Protection in cPanel

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 January 2011 01:52 Written by Naveed Ashraf Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:31

cPanel is fill with a ton of great features.  So many, that some of the most beneficial features are overshadowed and forgotten.  One feature that can come in handy for you from a security aspect is Leech Protect.

What is Leech Protect?

Leech Protect is a feature that enables you to keep the users who have restricted access to your website from giving away or publicly publishing their password.  When enabled, this feature redirects those user accounts that have been compromised to a URL of your choosing.

Elgg: Protecting Upgrade.php

Last Updated on Friday, 8 July 2011 10:46 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Sunday, 12 December 2010 07:54

What is upgrade.php?  Upgrade.php is a file that flushes the cache that elgg uses. It runs code and database upgrades. By default, in any regular Elgg install, anyone can run this file.  This is not good. We don’t want anyone running this file.

How to Enable Hotlink Protection for Your Website Using cPanel

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 November 2011 02:34 Written by Arian Jahansouz Monday, 13 September 2010 03:00

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to enable hotlink protection for your website and allow some domains to access your website from your cPanel.

Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Go to Security and click Hotlink Protection

Password protecting folders with cPanel

Last Updated on Saturday, 19 September 2009 12:26 Written by Noah S Saturday, 19 September 2009 12:26

Password Protect

Using the Password Protect Directories function in the cPanel will allow you to set user and different passwords on your folders. Here is how you set this up. (PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING FRONTPAGE EXTENSTIONS THIS WILL NOT WORK. YOU WILL NEED TO DISABLE FRONTPAGE EXTENSIONS.) Log in to your cpanel: domainname.com/cpanel. Scroll down to Password Protect Directories and click on the icon.