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RE: [cobalt-security] RAQ3 vulnerabilities



You might try using What's Up Gold to do HTML content scans on your
pages.
It really works great. You'll know within a few seconds if your home
page has
changed.

-Gary Root

Hi Parker,

> The only answer I can come up with is, "The sysadmin isn't paying 
> attention," and other evidence seems to back that up. Is there 
> something else I'm missing?

No, you're most likely right on the money with that one. Heck, as aware
about 
server security I am (some call it paranoid), it even happend to me
once.

One of my less important websites (a personal one, not business related)
was 
running PHPnuke, which is a nightmare security wise. There are more
holes in 
it than in my grandfather's socks. Anyhow, someone hacked the admin are
of 
this nuke driven site and defaced the startpage. They didn't actually
get 
into the server, but to my embarassment the defacement was up for a few
days 
before I actually noticed. 

If it had been a static website, them my IDS software would have
detected it 
as I run a checksum over each static website each night. For dynamically

generated pages that doesn't make much sense, though. ;o)

-- 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Michael Stauber

 Stauber Multimedia Design ____ Phone:  +49-6081-946240
 Eppsteiner Weg 9 ___  D-61267 Neu-Anspach ___ Germany
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