2009/6/28 William Anderson <ne...@well.com>: > Lucy wrote: >> [snip] >> 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. > > Other sites being compromised doesn't necessarily mean they were > responsible for the damage to John's site, just indicative of an attack > directly on the server or a mass attack on similarly vulnerable sites on > the same server.
True, but it makes finding the cause that much harder and the information I found indicated it was a mass attack. Just one of the many problems with shared servers and why it's so important to keep software up to date and to have your own backups :/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/