Friday Reminder: Web Site Security

[edepa at ieee.org (Etienne-Victor Depasquale)]

+1

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 4:44 AM Mike Hale <eyeronic.design at gmail.com> wrote:

> Big plus 1 to Bill's point.
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:37 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:25 PM Valdis KlÄ?tnieks
>> <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 15 May 2020 12:15:13 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" said:
>> > > This is your helpful Friday reminder to always pay close attention to
>> > > the security settings of all of the web sites under your
>> administration.
>> > > Otherwise, anonymous skript kiddiez could show up at any moment and
>> > > deface one or more of your web sites.  (It happens a lot.)
>> > > https://ipv4.plus/
>> >
>> > Just this week, I have seen an (unconfirmed) report that there is an
>> organized
>> > effort that's abusing SSH keys that lack passphrases - if they pwn a
>> system and
>> > find one, they go surfing it as far as they can.
>>
>> You may have missed the schadenfreude in Ronald's post.
>>
>> Give it a rest Ronald. You won.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Herrin
>>
>> --
>> William Herrin
>> bill at herrin.us
>> https://bill.herrin.us/
>>
>

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Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
University of Malta
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