April 7, 2010
If you have a Linux web server on the Internet you can be sure it is going to be attacked in one way or the other. When the server gets setup by your dedicated server web host, it is only barely secured. Before doing anything else you should put some basic level of security onto [...]
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February 7, 2010
You are logged into your server and notice an unauthorized user (ex-employee) on your Linux server. For whatever reason the original removal of his user account apparently failed. Since this now poses a critical security risk, how do you get rid of a) the SSH session of this user and b) how do you remove [...]
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