We almost got Hacked

[Avinash]

Yesterday night something bad happened. Someone was able to login to our VPS as root. I am not sure how?

We got notified of it within minutes and changed root password, restarted VPS within 5 mins.

Did a load of other things later ON .

If anyone of you see anything odd anywhere either on blog or forum, report to me here or email me. Hopefully we are fine now.

[Samuel]

Great to know, that security steps are taken and thanks for being so transparent avi. Appreciate it

[Alpha]

That's scary, the only good thing in that is no harm done. Hope we can stay away from such things in future. Long live Avinastech

[akiratoriyama]

I saw nothing much butw the chatbox stuck and got logged out
nothing strange but

[hakah]

Nice to hear that no harm done to the Forum!

[Jeremy]

I'll keep an eye out as well. I know our HTM server has had some hacker attempts recently, luckily they failed. A few things to watch out for are numerous users signing up for the forum in a short period of time. Other things that they may try is to flood the server with traffic or the use of ICMP's. Like I said, I will watch for unusual activity and report it.

[Cosme]

It's really good to see there's an "almost" on the title of the thread and no harm was done.

[Grr]

Good that no harm was done..