[CentOS] phpmyadmin location

[SilverTip257]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:48 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> SilverTip257 wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
> >
> >> On 17.04.2013 16:54, Software Toolz Authority wrote:
> >> > The Chinese probe for known vulnerabilities in phpmyadmin, so be sure
> >> > and change the root directory name from that suggested by the
> >> > installation.
> >>
> >> Everybody is probing everything. :)
> <snip>
> > Excluding Asia won't work for all or global companies, but works fine for
> > others.
>
> Yup. Just "Asia" is silly - I see them all the time, and it's not just
> China and Korea, but those real nasties in Brazil, and the Netherlands,
> and Russia, and some Germans, and occasional the Brits... and, of course,
> let's not forget all those nasty evil scum trying to break in... from the
> US.
>

Agreed -- the abuse is not just from one continent or country.

But at the same time it's not prudent to allow anyone access to a service
(host/port/page/whatever) when they have no need to.

Perfect example being people who let SSH open to the world on production
boxes and do little to nothing to protect it.


>
>        mark
>
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