Is your web server up-to-date?
Here is an interesting article about the search engine Shodan which is supposed to find web servers instead of web pages. This means that one can e.g. search for a particular web server version in one country.
Finding vulnerable web servers with Shodan is as easy as using Google. Hence in combination with the Metasploit exploit framework now almost everybody is able to easily run attacks against unpatched web servers.
So, have you installed the latest security updates for your web server?
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The perfect quote for this post comes from SHODAN itself: “Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?”
Adrian Koch
9 Dec 09 at 1:27 pm