On 28 Jun 2009, at 13:41, Lucy <lucybrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/28 William Anderson <ne...@well.com>: >> Lucy wrote: >>> [snip] >>> Like I said in an earlier post, many other sites on the same server >>> were also compromised. It's likely that he'll never find out which >>> one >>> was responsible. >> >> Other sites being compromised doesn't necessarily mean they were >> responsible for the damage to John's site, just indicative of an >> attack >> directly on the server or a mass attack on similarly vulnerable >> sites on >> the same server. > > True, but it makes finding the cause that much harder and the > information I found indicated it was a mass attack. Just one of the > many problems with shared servers and why it's so important to keep > software up to date and to have your own backups :/
Of course the attack could have come from one of the other websites' owners... You never know eh? James -- James Milligan lak...@lake54.com www.lake54.com www.killermentality.com www.twitter.com/lake54 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
