On Tuesday March 20th 2012, we finalized the implementation of a module called mod_security on all our Panelbox shared hosting servers. This module, known for its efficiency, allows the filtering of requests made on our web servers based on preestablished security rules.
These filters allow in part to protect you from known security vulnerabilities in certain scripts and web applications. When an action included in one of your web pages in your hosting account corresponds to one of these blocking rules, the operations performed by this page are stopped and a “403 Forbidden” page is displayed automatically instead.
Consequently, this allows the blocking of potential attacks and code injections made against your web pages. Additionally, this aims towards improving the quality of our infrastructures: by limiting the impacts of known security vulnerabilities on common web applications used by our customers, all of our customers avoid being affected by performance issues related to intrusions or exploits of these security flaws.
I this module blocks legitimate operations from your account, we can perform verifications in order to adjust certain parameters for your account.
Please contact us through the Customer Hub [https://hub.funio.com] if you encounter problems with the application of this module. Provide us with the precise steps so we can reproduce the issue.
Regards,
The Funio team
