Archive for August, 2008

Minor Invasion by Single User

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

All:

We had an intruder log in via SSH from Eastern Europe yesterday on one of the accounts, for the express purpose of inserting some extraneous JavaScript at the end of every index.php file on that account. I feel quite confident that this account was the only one affected by the intruder, as this is the only record of that IP address on the server and I have seen no other unusual activity. That said, you are encouraged to change your cPanel/FTP passwords on a regular basis and to make them difficult to guess. cPanel now has a function that helps evaluate the strength of passwords, and I have a simple technique for generating difficult-to-guess passwords.

Thanks for your attention. Please email me if you have concerns.

MySQL Slowness

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The MySQL server is showing some flukiness, so I’ve restarted it. This should explain any errors you’ve seen in the last few minutes.

[177 days of uptime on the server. Impressive.]