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Early reports suggested that the attackers were hitting sites using Microsoft SQL Server 2003 and 2005 and it is thought that weaknesses in associated web application software are proving vulnerable.
Thanks to the error messages that appear on this site with monotonous regularity I'm fairly sure that STW's not vulnerable...
Posted : 04/04/2011 10:07 am
Topic starter
Ouch!
Posted : 04/04/2011 10:10 am
STW was probably down when they started the attacks, so they missed it 😉
Posted : 04/04/2011 10:18 am
28,000 sites ay, my God that must be 0.01%
Posted : 04/04/2011 10:30 am
[i]that must be 0.01% [/i]
not sure it'll be that high, tbh;
"there are 256 million hostnames in the world. The total number of web sites (and blogs, micro-blogs etc.) would be much, much more – a billion perhaps?"
Posted : 04/04/2011 10:39 am
Good point wwaswas, sorry for causing a panic.
Posted : 04/04/2011 10:41 am
SQL Server 2003? That's a new one!
And 28,000 sites... that's like..... only one physical server on Fasthosts shared hosting platform?
Posted : 04/04/2011 11:02 am