[ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

[Lucy]

2009/6/28 William Anderson <neuro at well.com>:
> Lucy wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Like I said in an earlier post, many other sites on the same server
>> were also compromised. It's likely that he'll never find out which one
>> was responsible.
>
> Other sites being compromised doesn't necessarily mean they were
> responsible for the damage to John's site, just indicative of an attack
> directly on the server or a mass attack on similarly vulnerable sites on
> the same server.

True, but it makes finding the cause that much harder and the
information I found indicated it was a mass attack. Just one of the
many problems with shared servers and why it's so important to keep
software up to date and to have your own backups :/