General

ConfigServer Holiday: 3 Nov 2011 to 13 Nov 2011

Announcement

Our Online Store and Helpdesk will both be closed from the 3rd November 2011 to the 13th November 2011 while we take our annual holidays. We will not be available to accept orders, reply to emails or provide support for any issues during this time.

If you decide to purchase a Service Package before the 3rd of November 2011, please be aware that we will not be able to perform any work or provide any support during the period above.

We will be open for business again from the 14th November 2011.

New cxs v2.36

Changes:

  • cxs Watch will now restart if a change to a specific –xtra [file] is made. This triggers a full restart of cxs Watch
  • Improvements to –timemax [secs]
  • Improvements to error reporting during scans
  • Added more advanced PHP decoders to –decode ([D])
  • Exploit regex definitions database additions
  • Exploit fingerprint definitions database additions

New cxs v2.35

Changes:

  • Added new option –timemax [secs]. Scan timeout per file in seconds to prevent looping. Default is 30 seconds
  • Additional logging on cxs watch startup to show the progress of user account inotify setup
  • Exploit regex definitions database additions
  • Exploit fingerprint definitions database additions

New csf v5.41

Changes:

  • Added text description of allow/deny made by cPanel Resellers via UI in csf.allow and csf.deny
  • If cPanel UI Resellers email alerts are enabled, a csf grep will be performed before an IP adress is unblocked and the output included in the alert email, together with the results of the UNBLOCK
  • If cPanel UI Resellers email alerts are enabled, the results of an ALLOW or DENY will be included in the alert email
  • Added logging of cPanel UI Reseller actions ALLOW/DENY/UNBLOCK to /var/log/lfd.log
  • Update to urlget to not fail on empty file if successfully retrieved
  • Take Integrated UI out of BETA as no reported issues
  • Take csf.redirect out of BETA as no reported issues

New csf v5.40

Changes:

  • Added new feature – csf UI Reseller functions for cPanel. See /etc/csf/csf.resellers and WHM UI
  • Improvements to cse Integrated UI
  • Modified redundant cPanel function calls in UI
  • Removed ModSecurity functionality in UI
  • Modified WHM UI “Remove Deny” to be “Quick Unblock” that now removes a specified IP address entries from csf.deny and/or temporary blocks

New cxs v2.34

Changes:

  • Modifications to the UI
  • Updates to the failure detection of the quarantine procedure
  • New option –force. If –force is not used then cxs will refuse to scan within restricted directories: /usr /var /bin /lib /lib64 /boot
  • Modified daily update check to only restart cxs Watch if updates are actually new
  • Modified cxs Watch to no longer require a /scripts/postwwwacct entry (which is now ignored) as it now monitors /var/cpanel/users/ for new users on cPanel servers
  • Exploit fingerprint definitions database additions

New cxs v2.33

Changes:

  • Redesigned cxs UI, included functions for controlling cxs Watch
  • Added TERM logging to the cxs Watch daemon to signify termination

New cxs v2.32

Changes:

  • Added init script for cxswatch daemon on cPanel servers. This is instead of using /etc/rc.local to start the daemon and can also be used to stop/start/restart/status the daemon. See the cxs documentation for more information
  • Added entry to chkserv.d on cPanel servers so that cPanel will monitor the cxswatch daemon using tailwatchd. See the cxs documentation for more information

New cxs v2.31

Changes:

  • Fixed issue with tarball and zip file contents checking
  • Further improvements to the Fingerprint matching system
  • Exploit fingerprint definitions database additions

New cxs v2.30

Changes:

  • Significant speedups for pattern matching
  • Improvements to the Fingerprint matching system which includes speedups and additional identification methods
  • Fixed error message for scanning an non-existent file
  • Exploit regex definitions database additions
  • Exploit fingerprint definitions database additions