Googlelady Hitted by “0″ Day Linux Exploit

February 14, 2008

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Some of you may noticed Googlelady’s was down for almost 24 hours, and that’s because our server went down and died totally. What happened is that there is a zero day exploit on Linux machine (CentOS and other major OS Linux). Some major companies like Hostgator also was hitted and I am sure that many hosting companies were hitted or will be if they don’t patch it.

Some Urgent stept that you have to do:

• Contact your hosting company and tell them about this zero day exploit. For more info refer to this post in Bug #190587 in linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu)
• If you have a website/blog that have third-party software like wordpress. Upgrade it to the latest version ASAP
• Change your Hosting Password or Root password for a difficult password with different characters (*#”_)(@*) And numerics Minimum 15 length of your password (CHANGE IT ASAP).

Now we (etalk network) are in the process to fix and backup everything that was damaged. And let me tell you this was chaos for us because being active on this online bussiness. We had to stop every campaign (PPC) and had 10 programmers working to make everything work like usual. That’s why we always says “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” and this apply also on Servers and Hosting accounts. Don’t put all your servers under one companies. If you have more than one dedicated server or vps, buy it from different hosting companies. We had to learn this in the hard way.

Good luck everyone!

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