On Jun 5, 5:03 am, "Dr. Pain" <ItHurtsSoG...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [quote]
> From: Roy Schestowitz
> Newsgroups: alt.www.webmaster
>
> Hi, folks. I am fairly sure I have been cracked. And yet, quite fortunately,
> the damage appears to be minimal. I run Apache 1.3.x on a Red Hat server.
> Some observations follow.
> [/quote]
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.www.webmaster/msg/6b8f484a77751738...
Even if a server is as secure as Fort Knox, careless writing of web
pages, CGI-BIN and PHP can leave a virtual host vulnerable. A
possible trick is to pervert a mail from web page feature to use it as
a spambot. The server then sags under the load of the spam
transmissions. This can be curbed by limiting valid mail destinations
eg to mail 'redirects' on an associated mail server.
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