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Re: Security Guideance
From: Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:55:33 -0500
Why does there need to be blame? Diagnose the problem, fix the problem, move on with life. Someone made a mistake, learn from it, move on. -- Joel Esler joel.esler () me com http://www.joelesler.net On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 05:13PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:27:21 -1000, Nate Itkin said:On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:46:54PM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote:The problem is that a user on this box appears to be launching high traffic DOS attacks from it towards other sites.It's possible the user inadvertently enabled the same exploit after you rebuilt the system. I suggest caution with assigning culpability.Or the gold image used to rebuild was itself vulnerable. It happens a lot more often than you think. I'd suggest *lots* of caution with assigning culpability. ;)
Current thread:
- Re: Security Guideance, (continued)
- Re: Security Guideance Dan White (Feb 23)
- Re: Security Guideance acv (Feb 23)
- Re: Security Guideance Nathan Ward (Feb 23)
- RE: Security Guideance Joe (Feb 23)
- Re: Security Guideance Curtis Maurand (Feb 24)
- Re: Security Guideance Dan White (Feb 23)
- Re: Security Guideance Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 23)
- Re: Security Guideance Joel Esler (Feb 23)