Hello All!

This comes as a surprise to me:

http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

"News broke yesterday that a hacker had breached the internal
systems, including official website, admin section, and customer
database, at NoSupportLinuxHosting, compromising its entire
operation, and that it was therefore closing down. The company
website has been replaced by a short statement, including "We
can no longer operate the No Support Linux Hosting business. All
customers should immediately download backups of their websites
and databases through cPanel." "

I thought linux-based servers were generally impervious to
hacks. Is this a sign of more events like this to come?

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On 10 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...

I thought linux-based servers were generally impervious to
hacks. Is this a sign of more events like this to come?

It really depends on what happened and how you define "hack". Anyone can have a linux server on the internet, but if your username is "root", your password is "password" and your SSH port is exposed to the internet, some script kiddie will be in your system in as little as 30 minutes.

My guess is nosupportlinuxhosting.com's backend infrastructure was breached somehow so that hackers had access to all of their customer's systems.

All customers should immediately download backups of their websites
and databases through cPanel.

cPanel has been having all kinds of problems, the most recent one is a 2FA bypass vulnerability:

https://www.recordedfuture.com/cpanel-whm-vulnerability/

I could imagine that may have something to do with their shutdown.


Jay

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