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A New ICANN Policy Is Now In Force

ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has enforced a new policy that affects all Whois updates regardless of whether a change of registrant or just a simple Whois modification is taking place. The policy is effective December 1, 2016.
The new policy has been imposed on all registrars and, as an ICANN-accredited registrar, we’ve taken all due steps to implement it throughout our system.
The implementation will affect all domain registrants who attempt to make modifications to the Whois contact information of their domain names  (.COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ or .INFO). This includes changes to the registrant’s name, organization or email address.

What is the new policy about?

ICANN’s new policy represents an essential revision of its Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP), which covers the authorization procedures registrants need to pass through prior to initiating a transfer.
The new revision also covers the process of transferring domain ownership from one registrant to another, which now entails a series of confirmation and notification emails.
In addition to transfers, the new policy revision also affects simple Whois data updates, which may include changes to the registrant’s first name, last name, organization or email address.

How will the new policy affect registrants?

The new policy has introduced a few significant changes to the Whois management process, which can be summarized as follows:

• registrants will no longer be able to make simple modifications to their Whois data with a click of the mouse;
• any changes made to the first name, the last name, the organization or the email address, will now trigger an email confirmation procedure;
• the procedure includes obtaining confirmation from both the current and the new registrant before the change is completed;
• after the Whois update has been completed, the current and the new registrant will receive a confirmation email informing them that the change is reflected in the Whois database;
• whenever a Whois modification has been implemented, the associated domain will enter into a 60-day transfer-lock period;
• if a Whois change is made before initiating a domain transfer, the present registrant will be able to opt out of the 60-day lock, so that the domain can be transferred to the new registrant as soon as the Whois update confirmation procedure has been completed;

How does the new policy work?

The newly revised policy will come into effect every time a change is made to the Whois data, be it a registrant change or a simple Whois modification. Here are the steps involved in the Whois update procedure on our platform:

1. The domain owner submits a Whois modification request;
2. We send a Whois update confirmation request to the new registrant, asking them to approve or to decline the change of registrant;
3. We send a Whois update confirmation request to the current registrant, asking them to approve or to decline the change of registrant; In the event of a transfer, we give the current registrant the option to opt out of the 60-day transfer lock that is imposed on a domain after a Whois update is confirmed. This way, they will be able to initiate the transfer as soon as the Whois update request is confirmed;
4. Once the Whois change has been approved by the registrant(s), we will complete the update and send a final confirmation to both the current and the new registrant notifying them of the completed process. No further response is required from the registrant(s) at this point.

In case the current or the new registrant does not approve the change within 5 days of receiving the update confirmation request from us, the latter will be terminated and the current Whois information will not be modified.

NOTE: Even if the registrant just wants to make a correction to their name or organization, for example, the policy mandates that we send two separate emails in this case as well.

The afore-described Whois update confirmation procedure will not affect ID-protected domain names.
To make this possible, we have changed our Terms-of-Service agreement.
Of course, we will always opt out of the 60-day transfer lock on behalf of the given registrant, allowing transfers to take place.

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9 Proven Tricks To Protect Your WordPress Site From Attacks

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS solutions available today. As such, it is being used by a very large number of websites on our network.
However, its popularity among users also means that it’s extremely popular amongst hackers as well.
Here are 9 proven tricks to protect your WordPress site from attacks:

1. Choose a strong password

This is valid not only for WordPress, but for any online service where you have to log in. Choose a long password that has both lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers and, if allowed, special symbols. WordPress has a built-in password strength meter when setting up a new password and here is a guide on how to create strong passwords.

2. Create custom login URLs

During every WordPress installation, the same default login URLs are created. This makes it easier for attackers to locate them and launch a brute-force attack to gain access. You can thwart them by using custom login URLs. You can use the ready-made Custom Login URL  plugin for exemple.

3. Change the ‘admin’ username

During the installation, WordPress sets up an ‘admin’ username by default. If someone wants to access your WordPress site and your username is still the default one, the attacker’s job is already half done.
To fix that, once you have installed WordPress, create a new user with admin privileges. Then, log out of your current session and log in with the new username and password you have set up. Then, delete the default user. If you have created any posts, make the new user their owner.

4. Limit the login attempts

A brute-force attack involves a script attempting to log into your account by using numerous username/password combinations. A very simple way to stop such attacks is to limit the number of login attempts. You can use the WP Limit Login Attempts plugin for exemple or any other.
If your site is hosted with us, you are already protected by the mod_security Apache module we have. It blocks users who make more than 10 login attempts within 1 minute and is enabled by default.

5. Limit the access to the admin area by IP address

If you are the only person who needs to log into your admin area and if you have a static IP address, you can deny access to everyone except yourself to the wp-admin folder using an .htaccess file.
Create a file called ‘.htaccess’ using a plain text editor or simply edit the existing one (if any) and add:
# Block access to wp-admin.
order deny,allow
allow from x.x.x.x
deny from all
Here, ‘x.x.x.x’ is your IP address. You can add multiple IP addresses by adding the line ‘allow from x.x.x.x’ in accordance with the number of IPs you wish to whitelist.

6. Limit the access to the admin area by IP address

You can also limit the access to the wp-login.php file via an .htaccess file.
Create a file called ‘.htaccess’ or simply edit the existing one (if any) in the /wp-admin folder and add:
<Files wp-login.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from x.x.x.x
Deny from all
</Files>
Here, ‘x.x.x.x’ is your IP address. You can add multiple IP addresses by adding the line ‘allow from x.x.x.x’ in accordance with the number of IPs you wish to whitelist.

7. Hide the admin area from bots

Add the following lines in the robots.txt file or create a file named ‘robots.txt’ with the following content:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /administrator
This will essentially block search engines from indexing these URLs, as brute-force attackers generate lists of such URLs (intitle: Log In and inurl: wp-login) namely with the help of the major search engines.
This is a long-term prevention method, as it will take a few months for the search engines to update this information, but it should make brute-force attempts disappear for good.

8. Protect yourself from spam comments

On a different note, if you are receiving a large number of spam comments on your WordPress site, you can disable the comment option by doing the following:
Go to yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php and uncheck ‘Allow people to post comments on new articles’.
You WILL need to go to all the existing posts and to turn off the comments there as well.
If you still want people to be able to comment, you might consider making them register first. In that case, check the box ‘Users must be registered and logged in to comment instead’.

9. Keep WordPress and your plugins up to date

This may sound trivial, but there are a lot of users who simply forget to update. Each new update brings security improvements and is considerably more secure than the previous one. And WordPress is under very active development, so security patches are released frequently. You can use the WP Updates Notifier plugin to notify you when there are available updates for your themes, plugins and the WordPress core.

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The Dirty COW Linux Exploit Patched Successfully

It has been some time since the nightmarish Poxy and Poodle vulnerabilities scared Internet users out of their wits, and now the web faces a new security exploit – a Linux kernel flaw bearing the ‘user-friendly’ name “Dirty COW”.
Dirty COW represents a privilege-escalation vulnerability that hackers can exploit and do harm to web servers using any Internet-connected device.
We’ve managed to address the issue on time and apply the necessary patches to our Linux-based system.

What is the Dirty COW security bug about?

In fact, the Dirty COW vulnerability is not new, at least not to Linux’s founder Linus Torvalds who admits to having uncovered it 11 years ago.
A bug fix patch was released in due time, but 3 years later it was undone by another security fix, leaving the Linux kernel vulnerable to network attacks for a period of 9 years. It was not until a couple of days ago that the ‘dirty’ Linux kernel threat re-surfaced online again.
According to Red Hat, the Dirty COW security flaw has left the Linux kernel vulnerable to unprivileged users who want to gain root access in order to increase their privileges and compromise the given server’s security.
This allows local users to gain write access to read-only memory mappings and hijack an Internet-connected device within practically a few seconds.
It is namely the broken copy-on-write (COW) mechanism in the Linux kernel that the flaw has been named after.

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A new Python Manager is now available in the Control Panel

Following the feedback of web developers, we’ve added a new functionality to the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the Python Manager.The new Python Manager will allow users to edit the current Python version and to enable Python-compatible applications for their projects. Located right next to PHP Settings, it gives you one-click access to various Python management options.

From the Python Manager section of the Control Panel, you’ll be able to set the Python version for your account. You can choose between Python 2.7, Python 3.1 and the latest version – Python 3.5.

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.DK – The Country-Code TLD For Denmark, Is Now open For Registration On Evostrix Web Hosting

.DK – The Country-Code TLD For Denmark, Is Now open For Registration On Evostrix Web Hosting.

The official country-code TLD for Denmark – .DK, is now open for registration to all individuals, organizations and companies wishing to build a successful web presence in this high-potential Scandinavian country.

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httpoxy – a CGI application vulnerability now under control on our servers

A recently re-discovered server-side application vulnerability has been sending shivers down Internet users’ spine for a couple of days now.
The so-called ‘httpoxy’ vulnerability affects applications whose code is executed in CGI or other CGI-like environments.
To address this critical issue, we have enabled automatic website and app protection for managed solutions on our web hosting platform.

What is the httpoxy vulnerability about?

The new httpoxy vulnerability opens up ‘a green corridor’ for attackers to exploit the communication between a web application and other external applications via API.
If a vulnerable web application makes an outgoing HTTP connection, this could lead to a few critical consequences:

• the outgoing HTTP requests could be proxied;
• the server could be configured to send private information to a particular address and port;
• the server resources could be exhausted by forcing the application to use a malicious proxy;

An outgoing connection could be exploited when the hacker makes a request that includes a ‘Proxy’ request header.
The CGI then turns the header into an environment variable called HTTP_PROXY, which is used to configure an outgoing proxy.
The web application in turn makes a request to a hacker-defined destination instead of the particular API. Let’s see how this translates in a real-life scenario.

Protection measures against httpoxy (Managed Services):

As soon as the httpoxy vulnerability was announced, we took immediate measures to patch all web hosting services, which are under our control.
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• All shared web hosting services;
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Protection measures against httpoxy (Unmanaged Services):

If you are using a non-managed OpenVZ server, a KVM VPS or a dedicated server, or/and do not use the Hepsia Control Panel, then you will need to take immediate measures to protect your applications from the httpoxy vulnerability.
First of all, keep in mind that your applications are in fact immune to the httpoxy vulnerability in the following cases:

• if your applications are making API requests over an encrypted (SSL/TLS/HTTPS) connection; httpoxy only affects unencrypted requests;
• if you are not using CGI, but instead faster and better code environment alternatives that have been introduced over the last few years;

If you are using CGI, but have not yet made use of an encrypted connection, then you can easily prevent any exploit attacks by blocking the ‘Proxy’ header.

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