I have seen no evidence that recent problems are anything other than shared hosting sites getting cracked. Note to admins -- running your system with all the vi

I have seen no evidence that recent problems are anything other than shared hosting sites getting cracked. Note to admins -- running your system with all the virtual host files owned by apache is asking for trouble. Use something like the itk patch for Apache (http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/ http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/) where each virtual owns its files and uses normal permission restrictions to control access to the rest of the system. Although this won't help those of you who are bone-headed enough to chmod 0777 all of your files...