Re: what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

[Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxx>]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> Someone cracked my gmail password and sent what seemed like an oddly
> small amount of spam from it.

gmail and hotmail must be very easy to crack,
or is there some check apart from the password?

> That doesn't work for web services open to the public.  You need
> firewalls that can work at wire speed filtering the inbound URLs for
> known attack patterns, plus of course, updating the software as
> quickly as possible to fix the vulnerabilities.

Yes, I'm more worried about attacks through port 80.
Can anyone point me to documentation on protecting a web-server?


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Timothy Murphy  
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