cPGuard’s Latest Features: Enhanced Protection Against DoS Attacks and AI Bot Crawling
New Features in cPGuard In the ever-evolving world of web security, staying ahead of cyber threats is critical. cPGuard, a robust security solution, has introduced new features to its IPDB (IP Database) module, designed to block denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and...
Bad Crawler Protection in WAF Configuration: Enhancing Website Security
In our ongoing commitment to protect your websites from unwanted traffic, we've recently introduced new ruleset in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration named "Bad Crawler Protection." This update replaces the legacy "RBL Protection" rules set. We've phased...
WordPress CVE Vulnerability Monitoring and Patching Using cPGuard
In our ongoing commitment to enhance website security, we have explored various options to monitor and patch vulnerabilities in WordPress and its components. Given that WordPress holds a significant share of compromised websites, particularly in shared hosting...
What’s New with cPGuard in June 2024
2024 has been an engaging year for our team, bringing numerous features and improvements to cPGuard. We've added enhancements to existing modules, with several more innovations still in development. As we reach mid-2024, let's discuss the major updates available now...
cPGuard version 4.83 performance updates
We released cPGuard version 4.83 on September 5th with some improvements in the core to increase the software efficiency and to reduce resource usage along with other bug fixes. Key modifications in this latest release of cPGuard include: Virus database amendments Our...
Maxer Hosting: How the Hungarian based Webhosting company integrated cPGuard into their custom control panel
Security concerns on a shared server In shared hosting, security is a tough battle. Web Hosters must consistently secure and update all their servers, as stipulated by their security policies. However, in multi-website environments like shared servers, the imperative...
WordPress Security – Secure WordPress sites in cPanel/Plesk/DirectAdmin or any web server using cPGuard
WordPress is a well-known Content Management System ( CMS ) that is powering millions of websites around the world. Along with its popularity to build and manage websites, it is also the hot target of various types of attacks. A WordPress website hosted on a server...
cPGuard integration with Enhance Control Panel
We are so happy to announce that cPGuard integration with Enhance control panel is enabled from version 4.65. We have been working hard over the past weeks to complete the supporting scripts in the standalone version and now almost all functions will work fine on...
Vulnerability fixed in WordPress Elementor Pro plugin – How cPGuard handles it
The vulnerability As many of you are aware already, there is a critical vulnerability reported in the WordPress Elementor Pro plugin, which is installed on millions of websites. Though they have already released a patched version already, there are still many websites...
Find malware in a cPanel user account
What is malware in web hosting? Malware is a generic term for any type of malicious software written specifically to harm a network, system, or user. In the web hosting domain, this usually means a back door, an injection, or a phishing kit that is uploaded to a user...
WordPress core checksum verification and check suspicious cPanel user activity in cPGuard version 4.58
We have released cPGuard version 4.58 recently with 2 major features added. We believe the latest features will be helpful for our customers to automatically manage abusive attempts to compromise an account/website and send alerts to the end user and the server...