How to Optimize and Secure a Virtual Private Server (VPS)
This article covers a wide range of methods for securing and optimizing your VPS. We do not provide any warranty for this article, so if you are not sure what you are doing please make sure you research before you do it.
Secure cPanel/WHM and the Root User on VDS:
Checking for formmail:
Form mail is used by hackers to send out spam email, by relay and injection methods. If you are using matts script or a version of it, you may be in jeopardy.
Command to find pesky form mails:
find / -name “[Ff]orm[mM]ai*”
CGIemail is also a security risk:
find / -name “[Cc]giemai*” Read more