The server I lease was compromised by a spammer last week, and I was never able to resolve it. Late Monday night, my datacenter pulled it offline to do some investigation. Unfortunately, the abuse folks and the security folks didn’t talk well right away, and … it took me calling twice today, the second time waiting until the guy on the phone was totally able to confirm that someone in security was looking at the server right then, to get it resolved. Frustrating, but like I told the guy on the phone: I’m a government contractor, and I know that sometimes there are “communication inefficiencies”.
[I actually said that ... and I'd never heard it before. I really am becoming a management drone.]
Anyhow … I apologize to all of you who got sucked down with me, and I want to let you know that we’re monitoring the box right now, and we could go back down if we catch the exploit in progress again.
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