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Nothing beats the power of fast internet connectivity these days; so many businesses both private and public, government organizations, educational institutions and corporate bodies have begun to reap the benefits of having an online presence.

Today however, we are also moving fast beyond just having an online presence, to having one that is rich in informative content, user-friendly interfaces, and other features that would make potential clients visit again and again.

All the above are what Enrol.NG promises to offer to private individuals, business owners, government parastatals, educational institutions, religious and social organizations, who are looking to take their brands, ideas and businesses to the next level with a strong identity online.

Some serious security vulnerabilities exist in the web hosting platform cPanel & WHM allowing for remote attacks. Some of the bugs actually exist because of an intended feature, hence, remain unfixed.

cPanel & WHM Vulnerabilities

Researchers from the UK-based cybersecurity firm Fortbridge have found numerous security issues in the popular web hosting platform.

In a recent blog post, Adrian Tiron, Cloud AppSec Consultant at Fortbridge, explained that exploiting the vulnerabilities allows remote code execution attacks on cPanel & WHM.

Briefly, the researchers spotted the bugs during a black-box pentest of cPanel/WHM that supports entire server administration.

One of the bugs includes an XML External Entity (XXE) that existed in the reseller account the researchers tested. This issue…

DoubleClick by Google refers to the DoubleClick Digital Marketing platform which is a separate division within Google. This is Google’s most advanced advertising tools set, which includes five interconnected platform components.

DoubleClick Campaign Manager: the ad-serving platform, called an Ad Server, that delivers ads to your customers and measures all online advertising, even across screens and channels.

DoubleClick Bid Manager – the programmatic bidding platform for bidding on high-quality ad inventory from more than 47 ad marketplaces including Google Display Network.

DoubleClick Ad Exchange: the world’s largest ad marketplace for purchasing display, video, mobile, Search and even Facebook inventory.

DoubleClick Search: is more powerful than AdWords and used for purchasing…

Cybersecurity researchers have successfully conducted remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation attacks on popular web hosting control platform cPanel & WHM by exploiting a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

While cPanel is limited to managing a single hosting account, cPanel & WHM allows admins to manage the entire server.