Hello all, I just received the following from Michael Simon, the fellow who runs zwiki:
> FYI there was a junk file upload to leo.zwiki.org today, and I've just > removed it and disabled anonymous file upload permission in the wiki's > Security tab. You don't need to do anything, except avoid deliberately > re-enabling that permission. If you know of any other leo wiki admins likely > to be doing this, please let them know. Thanks to Michael for handling this. Stuff like this makes me wonder... Edward P.S. Apparently it was a fairly big deal. See the following: On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Support Ticket 821802 has been updated by 'brianok' > > -------------------------------------------------- > Hello, > > We have received a notification that a site running on your Linode has been > hacked: > > http://leo.zwiki.org/kurd.txt > > In cases of confirmed compromise, we strongly suggest completely redeploying > as it is often very difficult to determine the full scope of an attack. If > downtime is a concern to you, the following guide will assist you with safely > recovering your data and redeploying your Linode with minimal downtime: > > - http://library.linode.com/troubleshooting/compromise-recovery Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
