Re: thenerds.net got hacked

From: Matt Barton (nerd@netmonkey.net)
Date: 06/06/02


From: Matt Barton <nerd@netmonkey.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 21:22:33 -0500


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On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, RyanW wrote:

> Are the people running IIS sites less skilled or what? I mean compared
> to an admin of an apache site? Why do all these hacks where credit card
> numbers or personal info get harvested seem to be happening only to IIS
> sites: Egghead, Playbo, TheNerds, etc.

Learning UNIX forces one to learn the basics. IIS makes it much simpler
for people to administrate a server, which often means you have people who
are less competent at the helm.

- --

Matt Barton nerd@netmonkey.net
Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/

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