Phishing Site on Gnome

February 11, 2009, 6:20 pm

The Gnome server was temporarily shut down by the Data Center for a phishing site made by one of the new clients placed on this server. We were informed of the enforcement policy very late in the evening and was unable to act on it in two hours prompting the DC to disconnect the server so the site cannot do any damage.

We will be very vigilant to impose suspension on sites that could case a similar incident int he future. However, even if this problem was caused by a single client, it dragged along with it all other hundreds of clients in the server.

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