was taught to me by the hackers that kept killing my server.
Fortunately - it was all hobby and for fun, but I learned so much about security and I have managed to to be hack free for years.
Suposedly this is a "zero day attack." Which means, an attack on the same day the exploit is made public - January 27th,2005. THIS IS NOT TRUE!
I gave access to my server to a friend as a favor. He provides my server with colocation services so I thought it was only fair to let him add a web page to it. I thought he knew what he was doing. Well, he added his an IP and his site but did not secure the new IP in the firewall. OOOOPPPPPPSSSSSS!! OK my bad - I counted on the firewall to protect me. OOOOPPPPPPSSSSSS!!
The server was infected on the January 18th, 2005 in nearly the exact same method that is described for this "MySQL worm." It does have few differances, but it is the same thing. It is probably an earlier version.
Long story short - I know the name of the hacker that made this worm. This January 27th worm is not the first version of this worm.
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was taught to me by the hackers that kept killing my server. Fortunately - it was all hobby and for fun, but I learned so much about security and I have managed to to be hack free for years.
Agreed.
I work with a couple of the Speco DVRs and they are rock solid and easily expanded.
Suposedly this is a "zero day attack." Which means, an attack on the same day the exploit is made public - January 27th,2005. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I gave access to my server to a friend as a favor. He provides my server with colocation services so I thought it was only fair to let him add a web page to it. I thought he knew what he was doing. Well, he added his an IP and his site but did not secure the new IP in the firewall. OOOOPPPPPPSSSSSS!! OK my bad - I counted on the firewall to protect me. OOOOPPPPPPSSSSSS!! The server was infected on the January 18th, 2005 in nearly the exact same method that is described for this "MySQL worm." It does have few differances, but it is the same thing. It is probably an earlier version. Long story short - I know the name of the hacker that made this worm. This January 27th worm is not the first version of this worm.