Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.

  • Tablaste@linux.communityOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I published it to the internet and the next day, I couldn’t ssh into the server anymore with my user account and something was off.

    Tried root + password, also failed.

    Immediately facepalmed because the password was the generic 8 characters and there was no fail2ban to stop guessing.