Site: Server downtime resolved (6:20 – 11:00 UTC+1)

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We had a downtime of our servers this morning, after getting hacked. This happend twice over the last week, so we did some real log-research and found reasons. A bug in the open source software “cacti“,…

We had again a downtime of our servers this morning, after getting hacked. This happend twice over the last week, so we did some real log-research and found reasons. A bug in the open source software “cacti”, used for statistical monitoring, made it possible to compromise the server and kept our admin busy for a couple hours. Read the story about “zombies” here (sorry, only in german)
We’ve been online again since 11:00.