Emergency recovery of a shared web and mail hosting VPS [Case Study]
A small side-effect of my community and blogging work is, that I occassionaly (a few times per month) have people reach out to me asking for advice on a variety of topics, or for help if they are in a pickle. The lastest case was a guy from Czechia (Let’s call him Mr. D), asking for help with his pwnd web/mail server. It had a multiple glaring issues and even after my intervention is probably a minefield of vulnerabilities and backdoor. Since I am in the last year (hopefully) of my PhD studies and am currently swamped by my regular job as well, I didn’t have time to spend properly investigating and fixing all the issues in a manner that I would feel comfortable getting paid for, I’ve decided to perform the bare minimum to get the site up and running “pro bono”. ...