In the journey of rebuilding my dedicated server to create a  secured cloud server, I was trying to find out what are the potential issues, besides network intrusion through various ports, and services on my server. I found numbers ranging from 70% to 85% of all intrusions actually occur by way of applications. Specifically, I [...]

while I was trying to get the Apache mod_security plugin working, I starting having issue with Including 2 different libraries. The examples required me to include libxml2 and lua 5 <em>LoadFile /usr/lib/libxml2.so LoadFile /usr/lib/liblua.so.5.0</em> Now when I ran a configcheck on Apache after this declaration alone, I kept getting the following error: <em>/usr/lib/libxml2.so: wrong ELF [...]

In a post I made a few months ago: http://baselogic.com/blog/archives/252 I talked about an issue with a RootKit that I had. Well, the truth is, that was just a symptom to an issue. The reality was, I was hacked pretty bad, and really forced to completely start fresh with a complete OS reload, and getting [...]