A few days ago, my hosting company sent me an automated email notifying me that port 25 had been blocked on my personal server. Cause: It had been found guilty of sending spam. As I’m not (at least officially) in the spam business, this could only mean one thing: I got hacked. I was shocked. If felt to me as though I was having a car accident. The first think to do in such situations is to restrict to the bare minimum connections from the outside world to regain control of the machine. In m...
