Welcome back! Last week’s article, There are no wallflowers at the security dance! Get to know your dance partners covered getting to know your security dance partners: If you are the business steward or a part of the management team, you already know the burden... If you have your business on the Internet, you are a part of a line dance. You can chose to be a wallflower, and face the consequences of doing nothing. Or you can get to know your fellow dance partners (maybe picking replacements for ones that no longer fit), and be... I received a phone call towards noon today from a hosting provider in Florida who, after spending days of trying to locate the source of spam coming from sites they host, needed expert help to locate the source of the problem. While they knew the domain names of sites... It started yesterday morning when one of our managed service customers in Spain put in a support request stating Apache was down. They shared the error logs showed they exceeded the default Max Connections. We both made the mistake of assuming this was just business... Daniel Cid and the Sucuri Malware Labs team do a great job at providing lists of IP addresses that can cause trouble. Just today they shared a List of IP addresses scanning for vulnerable timthumb which at the time of this article has 975 IP addresses listed. Let me... Are you being lulled into believing you are on a managed server when you rent your server from the likes of Rackspace.com and other data centers stating they are offering managed servers? What does it really mean when a data center provider states they offer managed... 