Earl Brannigan wrote:
MJR Wrote :
I'd certainly still be interested. It would also be nice to be on the sending end of one of these attacks for a change...!
For a change!?!?!......been on the receiving end then? I have. Recently had to completely rebuild a webserver because it had been rooted, trojaned, backdoored etc. There was no way to undo the mess that had been caused. I beleieve it was hacked via a bind overflow.
aarrgghhh how many times.. apply the updates and this is less likely to happen..(not impossible mind you)
If you want I can do a 10 minute demo at the barbeque on how to make a machine install updates automatically if it will encourage people to do this... I currently have 30 or so machines doing automatic updates, and I have to do about 5 minutes a week to make it work smoothly, all it took was a little time upfront...
I'm sure Earl will now verify, doing 5 minutes admin a week is worth it when compared to a machine rebuild... especially when it is a production machine....