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Offline Vulcan

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« on: August 04, 2006, 09:46:11 PM »
When someone doesn't see the value in the stuff you offer them, decides to the cheap path, and ends up in a trainwreck.

A prominent new data/center hosting service decided to take the freeware path for a security solution. Last week they had a website of a online IT news site hacked/defaced, this morning they've over 300 significant '.nz' hosted sites defaced. Muahahahahahhahahaha (no it wasn't me).

I'd spent a lot of time with them going over solutions we sell, showing how they worked, functionality, live sites etc. In the end they went with a Linux based security product cos it was free.
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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2006, 10:03:43 PM »
What security product?
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 10:06:17 PM »
Did you offer to work them into your schedule, in a week or so?  ;)
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« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2006, 10:29:12 PM »
Niiiiice:aok   Take the cheap route and you're bound to get bit in the bellybutton eventually.
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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2006, 11:24:01 PM »
Was the problem that they used an open source security product?  Or that it was configured incorrectly?
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2006, 03:50:42 AM »
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Was the problem that they used an open source security product?  Or that it was configured incorrectly?


Chairboy, a combination. Open source security and from what I can tell badly configured/patched linux boxes. Its always hard in this sort of situation to get them to disclose what happened, however recent ones had been PHP exploits, which we can protect against (L7 firewalls).
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