A virus placed on a site generally does not affect other sites on the
server. What has apparently happened in this instance, the hacker found
USGenWeb and was able to guess the password and got in. They then obviously
clicked all of the links, guessed the passwords and was able to get access
to five state sites.
They were not able to access the Ohio site. I have placed on the server a
program that will ban someone for a half hour who makes three incorrect
login attempts. If they make five incorrect login attempts, they are banned
permanently until I go in and manually approve them. And about a dozen
times a day I will get an alert that someone has been banned for either too
many incorrect attempts or for port scanning. The bad guys are hard at
work, folks.
Dale
-----Original Message-----
From: ohgen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:ohgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Sandra Quinn
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:09 PM
To: ohgen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [OHGENWEB] FW: [STATE-COORD] Update
Last summer in August it effected my accounts on
rootsweb/ancestry.com
Sheila Helser wrote:
If this is on a server, then the sites getting infected are on a
certain server? Or am I incorrect in that thinking. If I am correct,
what server is it? I would assume it would involve sites on that server.
Sheila
Dale Grimm wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: state-coord-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
> [mailto:state-coord-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sherri
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 10:12 PM
> To: board(a)rootsweb.com; state-coord(a)rootsweb.com;
> usgenweb-all(a)rootsweb.com; usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: [STATE-COORD] Update
>
> An update for you on the status of the hacker's attacks -
>
>
>
>
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