Posts Tagged ‘Security’

Red Hat, Fedora openssh security compromise

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Many of you may have already read the news, but for those of you that have not here is a recap. But first, let me state that we have tested all of our customer’s servers, and none have been compromised.

An email was sent to the fedora-announce mailing list, it started with, “Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed. The intrusion into the servers was quickly discovered, and the servers were taken offline.”

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Securing your Linux server

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

We deal with security related issues nearly every day. Many of these issues could be prevented with a few minor changes to php.ini along with the installation of mod_security. It is simply amazing how many machines are hacked, and then used for the sole purpose of sending spam, denial of service (DoS) attacks or Botnets.

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