31 Dec
2011
31 Dec
'11
10:45 p.m.
Les Mikesell wrote:
Someone cracked my gmail password and sent what seemed like an oddly small amount of spam from it.
gmail and hotmail must be very easy to crack, or is there some check apart from the password?
That doesn't work for web services open to the public. You need firewalls that can work at wire speed filtering the inbound URLs for known attack patterns, plus of course, updating the software as quickly as possible to fix the vulnerabilities.
Yes, I'm more worried about attacks through port 80. Can anyone point me to documentation on protecting a web-server?
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