--On Tuesday, February 12, 2008 02:16:02 +0530 Abilash Praveen
<contactme () abilashpraveen com> wrote:
Hello experts,
I had been talking to our web hosts the other day and they seem
to have a lot
of unusual brute force attack on the servers recently. I'm
guessing that it
could be because of my emails to the list? I mean, do you advice
on using a
personal email for this type of list? Or should I use something
like
@gmail.com? I know they can't easily break in to our servers,
but am I just
giving them a chance?
The chances of your little corner of the web being singled out for
attack are
pretty low. Besides, the level of pure crap flying around on the
internet
makes it nearly impossible to distinguish a directed attack from
the usual
garbage. So, you do your best to properly configure and secure
everything,
keep good logs and sit back and watch the crap fly.
--
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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