2009/6/28 Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net>: > Hi John, > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:51:26PM +0100, John wrote: >> It looks like my site is gone. The host has not backed up as promised, >> and they are just saying its gone no backup. That's all I'm getting. >> They wont tell me what happened, they wont tell me how the hacker got >> in, tjhey wont tell me why there is no backup. Nothing. I am feeling >> very sick right now. > > I agree with others who have said that the web applications you are > running are the most likely attack vector, and that you should make > sure they are kept up to date.
Like I said in an earlier post, many other sites on the same server were also compromised. It's likely that he'll never find out which one was responsible. I agree that keeping everything up to date is essential though. [snip] > In any case, for the future, you aren't likely to get far disputing > backup failures with any hosting company so it is best to assume > responsibility yourself for this. That may mean just checking > that backups your host does actually exist and are correct, or it > may mean doing them yourself. 2.5GiB is not a large amount of data > so there isn't really any excuse for not keeping a backup yourself. Seconded, and there are many backup options that don't require downloading the whole 2.5GiB each time. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
