Monday, March 26, 2012

How "safe" is Linux?


Having run a webserver for a couple of years with complete control over its monitoring and configuration I have recently had cause to wonder whether it had eventually been Pwned.

Although I religiously monitored my server logs and I didn't detect any activity other than the "normal" hacking attempts, I was surprised to receive a report that my IP address and Host was probing the servers of my partners company! I immediately disconnected the server from the Internet and took steps to obtain a new IP address and host.

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