[FPSPACE] Server attack

[Terry Wilson]

Hmm...I didn't examine any of my spams closely enough to see if they came
from fpspace, but I'd expect them to land in my inbox if they were
identifiably from fpspace.

On 6/6/07, David Woods <drwoods1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> A little bit of background on the recent outage.  Slowly but surely we
> are getting ahead of the little <explicative deleted>s.  If anyone is
> experiencing any consequences from this please let me know.  Thanks.
>
> Dave Woods
> FPSpace Administrator
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Server attack
> Date:   Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:54:04 -0400
> From:   Greg
> To:     David Woods <drwoods1 at earthlink.net>
> References:     <46660DB7.1040907 at earthlink.net>
>
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I meant to write you yesterday that our server (in Atlanta) was
> again attacked recently - someone exploited another vulnerability
> in a php program and was sending out hundreds of thousands of
> spam messages.  I imagine the server has been "blacklisted" on
> a few sites (I didn't catch this until it had been running 3 days) so
> some of your subscribers may be affected but I hope not.  Anyway,
> it usually takes a couple of weeks to clear.  I discovered this was
> the cause of the recent server outage - hopefully, it won't happen
> again.  One by one, I'm getting these vulnerabilities taken care
> of.  Unfortunately, the F&P server is so far removed from my
> daily job that I'm just really slow on maintenance.
>
> Thanks for patience,
>
> Greg
>
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