[dundee] Recent WHT down time - Warning Nasty Hack, well worth a read cunning little ba.......

[Robert Ladyman]

Hmmm...interesting that the culprit went straight to the backup servers: how 
would they know where they were - inside information / social engineering? It 
shouldn't have been publically accessible, surely.

On Thursday 26 March 2009 15:57:52 Arron Finnon wrote:
> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=729362
>
> Just come across this and i thought it worthy of a post.  Its a post
> in the WebHostingTalk forum explaining their recent downtime.  Due to
> backup servers being used in a deliberate, and planned attack.  Its
> actually quite interesting.
>
> Hope someone enjoys, and remember your backup is coming to get you
> whaahaahaahaaaaaa
>
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