[CentOS] Machine becoming irresponsive

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 17:23:50 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 18:57,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> a) You should NOT, under any circumstances, be backing it up to your home
> systems. You should be backing it up to a work server - there are very
> serious legal implications involved here.
>

Thanks, but there are no customer data or other sensitive data on the
server. I wouldn't dream of compromising customer data!


> b) Since it's in a datacenter, presumably being hosted, you need to
> contact the datacenter provider and inform them that you believe it may be
> infected, and work with them to investigate - they may have an intrusion
> response team far more qualified than you to investigate whether there's
> been an intrusion. On the other hand, you've also got to worry about your
> company's proprietary data, and what they should see, and what they should
> not.
>

That is a good idea. There do exist professionals for this type of
work, and that is the place to find them.

Thanks.


> As I said, a *lot* of legal issues - don't put yourself into a position
> that could get you, personally, out of a job, sued, or even, as an
> extreme, jailed.
>

Thank you for the concern. I will be cautious and not reckless! My own
security is not worth that server!


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