Re: Scumbag Hacker(VADIM V IBETA BY LUCIFER)

["Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo hetnet nl>]

Hi,

> Well don't take this the wrong way, but you probably shouldn't be
> fielding production systems on the Internet before you have an
> understanding of them.  At the very least, when you get your system back
> in order, is to ensure IPTABLES is running, and that you close every
> port with the exception of 80 and 22.  80, so that people can get to
> your website, and 22 so you can SSH into it.  DO NOT USE TELNET.  DO NOT
> USE TELNET.  DO NOT USE TELNET.  :)

 More important than running either iptables or ipchains - which I believe is 
*not* common practice on servers, but of course you could use them to protect 
specific services the way one would use tcpwrappers - is applying all updates 
available from ftp://updates.redhat.com or your local mirror.

Bye,
Leonard.