[vox-tech] my site was hacked

Tony Cratz cratz at hematite.com
Wed Jan 27 13:30:53 PST 2010


Rick Moen wrote:
> Hai Yi (yihai2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
>> Tony: I use dreamweaver to edit my files locally and use its 
>> internal ftp to upload them.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> So, are you sending your password unencrypted across the open Internet?


	Beside sending your password unencrypted as Rick pointed out
	depending on the FTP client some of them are very insecure
	and can be 'hack' with ease.

	If you have a shell access you would be much better to transfer
	the file via SCP (rsync) instead.


							Tony


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