[clug] Secure your Internet facing stuff

Sam Couter sam at couter.id.au
Fri Jun 17 22:46:43 MDT 2011


Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com> wrote:
> Somewhere else in this meandering thread someone pronounced that home
> web servers were not used for spam.

If they're not used for spam they're used to host malware to infect
unwary web browsers, fake bank or paypal sites for phishing, or are part
of a DDoS botnet. The point is that if they're insecure they're dangerous
in some way, whatever that way turns out to be.
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