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PHP Updates: Hardened PHP

Monday, May 17th, 2004

LuxSci has updated the version of PHP supported by its web hosting servers to v4.3.6 and now includes “GD” support in PHP. LuxSci’s installation of PHP is now also “hardened” for security reasons. See http://www.hardened-php.net. Hardened-PHP adds security hardening features to PHP to protect the servers on the one hand against a number of well known problems in hastily written PHP scripts and on the other hand against potential unknown vulnerabilities within the PHP engine itself.

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Anonymous SMTP

Monday, January 26th, 2004

LuxSci announces Anonymous SMTP Services. When you send email from an email client (like Outlook or Mozilla), information about your email client and the Internet address of your computer are included in the email messages and are visible to all recipients (This is not true when sending email from WebMail, however). Many people interested in privacy do not wish this information to become known to their recipients, or anyone else on the Internet. LuxSci’s new “Anonymous SMTP” service allows you to send email from any email client and have this information removed from your messages before they leave LuxSci. This helps to ensure your privacy.

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Web Server Security Access Changes

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

LuxSci has just implemented a more secure and more granular model for managing users’ access to your web server. Now, administrators can, at any time, select each individual user’s access to the web server from the following possibilities:

  • No account: The user has no account on the web server at all
  • No access: The user may have an account, but has no way of logging into or accessing it
  • FTP access
  • FTP and SCP (Secure Copy) access
  • FTP, SCP, and SSH (Secure Shell) access with the tcsh shell
  • FTP, SCP, and SSH (Secure Shell) access with the bash shell

Note that SCP access is now available independently of SSH access, and SSH access is granted only in special cases.

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SMTP Proxy Servers

Monday, September 15th, 2003

LuxSci has added a set of new servers whose sole purpose is to receive incoming Internet email for our clients and to perform all basic anti-Spam and custom email filtering before forwarding the messages on for delivery into the client accounts on separate servers. This has several benefits: 1. Your email server will not need to spend as much effort on email and Spam filtering so that your IMAP, POP, Outgoing SMTP, and WebMail experience is faster, more responsive, and more robust. 2. Future email worms like “SoBig” which flood the Internet with email will have much less effect on your quality of service as the barrage of incoming email should be intercepted by the proxy servers, leaving your IMAP, POP, Outgoing SMTP, and WebMail services responsive and reliable. 3. Incoming email proxying can be load balanced across multiple servers.

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LuxSci Acquires Email Outsourcing Service from EMUMail

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

Professional Email Services Company Takes Over EMUmail’s Outsourcing Business

Boston, Massachusetts – August 30, 2003 – Lux Scientiae, Incorporated announced that it has acquired the email outsourcing services formerly provided by EMUmail. This acquisition provides Lux Scientiae with EMUmail’s entire outsourcing client base as well as certain advertising arrangements.

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