[vox-tech] my site was hacked

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Sun Jan 31 17:32:21 PST 2010


On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 05:05:24PM -0500, Hai Yi wrote:
> just checked - my ISP doesn't support SFTP, I couldn't connect to the
> site using SFTP, otherwise it seems OK

That's a damn shame, as standard FTP is totally insecure.
Your username/password and any files you transmit are completely
unencrypted.  (See also: why SSH instead of TELNET)

-bill!


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