[CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at alice.it
Sat Dec 31 22:45:05 UTC 2011
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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Timothy Murphy
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