What an awful day yesterday was. First meeting of the day was to take receipt of a CDROM that didn't play. Then I discovered that a Romanian computer had hacked blade. Found I couldn't log in again to server. Then in the evening I got a puncture on my bike.
At least we didn't lose any data that I can see, just functionality like errr.. login, the VFX tracker, the source control system. What a royal pain in the arse. Thanks to speedy reponses from Lewis and Doug it looks like we'll have a new system built asap and temporary hosting for the tracker.
That's twice I've been hacked now in the last 12 years. Leaving my account logged on at uni doesn't count! First time it was some user in Brazil setting up an IRC server on my box. I don't know what yesterday's effort was all about but checking the logs, there had been a brute force ssh password guessing programme running over the machine for some time. I noticed because a DLT tape was ejected from the server (something none of my mob has been able to work out how to do for years!), then noticed "jonathan" user logged on. Just goes to show you what happens when you don't have your own security department and accidentally leave a door open. In this case, it was my fault, I'd hastily set up a 'common name' account for my flat-mate a week ago and left password set to same name. That plus opening the firewall to ssh did the trick.