On Aug 15, 2019, at 02:27, Robert Jeffares <[email protected]> wrote:
> two seperate Rivendell installations with no connection other than myself had
> a malware attack which set out to encrypt files and in once case have stopped
> the system, in the other case an operator noticed a number of errors and
> restarted the server which [we think] thwarted the malware.
Also quite possible that the vector was through a M$ system attached to a
Rivendell host via a CIFS share. This is one of the primary reasons that
‘/var/snd’ should *never* be shared RW via CIFS, and is read-only to all
Rivendell users except ‘root’ and the dedicated ‘rivendell’ system account.
Watertight subdivisions, just like on all modern oceangoing vessels...
Cheers!
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