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Re: [cobalt-users] Hacked Into
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Hacked Into
- From: "MikeM" <MyRaQ@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Sep 22 18:54:21 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On 9/21/2001 at 2:36 PM Andy Davidson wrote:
|On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 almax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
|
|> Does anyone have any info that could help me, ie programs to make the
|> RaQ4i more secure.
|
|First thing to check -- have you enabled anonymous ftp ?
|
|If so, you've not been hacked, it's just users finding a fast machine, and
|anonymous access to all your space.
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I used to get dozens of anonymous ftp probes a day. I have it disabled, but lots of people keep trying anyway, some with ten or more probes per second.
Since I am the main user of my server, I just moved ftp to a different port and changed the config on my client (Dreamweaver). Now I worry less about an ftp exploit. :-)
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