On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Micha Nelissen wrote:

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Our german FTP machine was compromised recently (that is why the wiki

Let's be fair. The above is not confirmed, it may also have been a DOS attack.

True, but the result is the same: the machine is unusable, and a lot of time is being spent on fixing the damage.


is down). The main server has also been compromised some time ago.

That was simply an easy to guess password mistake, no ?

Most likely.


Since then, I am reluctant to open too much ports.

It's always a trade-off, but seen the above, the daemons weren't the security problem in this case. The lazarus website is sometimes down due to PHP compromises in PostNuke or whatever.

I know. But the end result is the same.

Michael.

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