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TygrBright

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3. The battle goes on.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 06:51 PM

Feb 2014

Crackers and spam merchants have become increasingly sophisticated at finding ways to exploit the smallest vulnerabilities to bust open whole nodes' worth of data and hijack vast arrays of computing power.

I'm just surprised you haven't heard from your host in 8 years. I get regular updates from my host on recommended security procedures, and what they are doing to make their servers more secure.

agreeably,
Bright

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Got an email from my hosting company about security.... [View all] steve2470 Feb 2014 OP

I cannot say whether it is common or not. ManiacJoe Feb 2014 #1

yes it is appropriate steve2470 Feb 2014 #2

The battle goes on. TygrBright Feb 2014 #3

I think they post security things on their website steve2470 Feb 2014 #4

I manage a couple plesk and cpanel servers...there some new massive exploits out Drew Richards Mar 2014 #5

a million probes a day ???? steve2470 Mar 2014 #6

I work for a very large isp/voip provider with data centers all over the US and virgin islands. Drew Richards Mar 2014 #7