[Techtalk] Server was hacked into; looking for tips on how to secure it

[Mary]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003, jennyw wrote:
> The first time, I had ipchains on the machine. This time I had an
> external firewall -- a Sonicwall. I had opened only DNS, http, https,
> imap, imaps, and smtp.  I was running Postfix, Courier-IMAP, BIND9
> (the first time I was running BIND 8), Apache, MySQL, and PHP4.

Which versions of Apache and MySQL? People who follow bugtraq more
closely than I might be able to suggest the exploit if you tell us the
version numbers.

-Mary