In what feels like a continuation of recent bad news related to major hacks and data losses…..George Ou reports on a BIG hack of GoDaddy hosting customers. There was also a big hack-athon by Turkish hackers over the last week that will be recorded as the biggest mass-web-site-defacement on record… There seems to be a lot of GoDaddy customers hacked by the very same method….
Tag: FTP
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Mandriva One 2006
I saw earlier today that Distrowatch was reporting that Mandriva One 2006 had been released and pushed to the ftp mirrors . It appears as though Mandriva One 2006 is a combination Live/Install cd based on (of course) Mandriva Linux. It looks as though it may only be available for download by Club members. There are 4 versions based on different languages….
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Network Security guide for the home or small business network – Part 4 – Know your software
Ok, so you’ve got a hardware firewall and you’ve got antivirus. You’re safe right? Well, not entirely. I’ve mentioned the flaws of antivirus. It’s always a step behind. A firewall doesn’t protect against unknown viruses, so what else is there to do? I’m going to tackle this in two steps. The first is to know what software is running on your system. Isn’t there a lot of that? How can I keep up?
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Mandrake or Mandriva linux server setup how to
A good how to has been posted at howtoforge.com, giving some instructions for setting up Mandrake (now Mandriva) 10.2 into a web/email serving platform. (As well as MySQL and FTP, DNS, and a few others.)
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