Tag: Cyberattack

Fail2Ban install tutorial for Linux (AlmaLinux)

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Mohammed Noufal | Updated: March 15, 2024

Category: Tutorials | Tags: AlmaLinux, Best Practice, Cyberattack, Fail2Ban, Security

Reading Time: 8 minutes

In today's ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, protecting your server from potential attackers is critical. AlmaLinux, a stable and community-supported Linux distribution, serves as a solid base for hosting services. However, proactive measures must be made to harden the server's defenses, and Fail2Ban is one such vital tool for this purpose.

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What is xmlrpc.php and Why Disable It?

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Liquid Web | Updated: October 24, 2023

Category: Common Fixes | Tags: Brute Force Attack, Cyberattack, Cybersecurity Risk, Deactivate xmlrpc.php, Disable WordPress XML-RPC, Disable XML-RPC-API Plugin, Disabling xmlrpc.php in WordPress, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack, Pingback Vulnerability, REST API, Security, Turn Off xmlrpc.php, WordPress, WordPress Pingback Feature, XML-RPC, XML-RPC Requests, XML-RPC WordPress API, xmlrpc.php, xmlrpc.php Exploit

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Since it was created, WordPress has always had a way to communicate with your website remotely — including different blogging platforms and desktop clients — in order to interact with it. As one of the early software platforms involved, the XML-RPC API system is comprised of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for encoding its calls with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) used as the transport protocol.

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