Greetings,
Hello all a customer contacted me today and they appear to have a root kit
or some other software placed on their system that is causing it to act as a
proxy used in attacks on other servers causing their ISP to kill em. They
prefer to clean and recover over re-install. There system is
My 2 cents :)
It may be a simple web form exploit or something more serious and they have
no guarantee that it won't be exploited again and again.
I'm not a security expert but used to hang out with hackers back when it was
just starting to be illegal and have a good understanding of how they
I'm gonna wait for Lisa to chime in, and then say, yeah, what she said :)
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:37 PM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote:
My 2 cents :)
It may be a simple web form exploit or something more serious and they have
no guarantee that it won't be exploited again and again.
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:37 -0700, JD Austin wrote:
My 2 cents :)
It may be a simple web form exploit or something more serious and they
have no guarantee that it won't be exploited again and again.
I'm not a security expert but used to hang out with hackers back when
it was just starting to
Any monkey could probably clean it or re-install it and put it on line. The
reason I used the term consult is because I would hope whoever goes in to
correct this would be able to educate them and secure them so they are not
repeating their mistakes.
:)
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Craig
I agree with JD.
I wouldn't (knowingly) buy a used car that had been fixed after a crash
either.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
James Finstrom wrote:
Any monkey could probably clean it or re-install it and put it on line.
The reason I used the term consult is because I would hope whoever
goes in to
