Re: [cobalt-users] Need advice on Colocating or Self Location

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Grant Stern" <grantstern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Also, I don't do silly things like spamming and porn
> hosting, my sites aren't really very attractive hacker targets thus far.

Grant, do you mean that your sites are relatively immune to hacking because
they're not involved in any kind of activity that people dislike?  I've had
a lot of clients and peers over the last year whose servers have been
hacked.  None of them hosted adult content and none of them spammed.  Nearly
all of them were the unfortunate victims of script kiddies running software
overnight that happened to scan the subnet that their servers were on and
then found that the script kiddies used cut and paste instructions to
exploit vulnerabilities on their boxes.  They weren't specifically targeted
and they didn't have reason to think they'd be targeted.  Their mistake was
to think that they were safe because they were not what they considered to
be good targets.  Unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned it seems that a
good target just happens to be a vulnerable box at the wrong place at the
wrong time.  And there's no reason to think that every box on the same
network in the same building as you is your friend either.  Especially since
the box sitting next to you could be an owned box.  My 2 cents.

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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
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