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GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar and hosting provider announced a data breach that impacts web hosting account credentials. The company notified unauthorized party access to their web hosting account credentials used to connect via SSH. GoDaddy Hack Godaddy found that the incident took place on October 19, 2019, was discovered on April 23, 2020, by GoDaddy security who found an SSH file altered in the hosting environment. “We recently identified suspicious activity on a subset of our servers and immediately began an investigation,” the company said in a data-breach notice filed with the California Attorney General, obtained by media. The company notified to the customers in an email signed by GoDaddy CISO and vice-president of engineering, Demetrius Comes, revealed that the security incident in question came to light after suspicious activity identified. The email notification  revealed  an “an unauthorized individual had access to your login infor...

How to Disable SSH Root Login in GNU/Linux:- -------------------------------------------- As we all know, root SSH login is enabled by default in GNU/Linux. We can easily access our remote servers and manage them if they have any issues via SSH. But it is not advisable to allow directly login as root user via SSH, because anyone can brute force root password and will try to access your servers. It’s better to have a separate user account and you can get root privileges by using su command if necessary. This handy tutorial will describe you how to disable root SSH login in GNU/Linux systems. Disable SSH Root Login Open up the SSH configuration file in any editor: # nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Search for the line “PermitRootLogin” and change the value from yes to no: [...] PermitRootLogin no [...] Save and close the file. Restart sshd service to take effect the saved changes: # /etc/init.d/ssh restart Now try to login as root user from any client systems. You will an error message lik...