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You shouldn't be a happy Linode customer. They still haven't owned up to what happened during that Bitcoin incident and what they've done to stop it happening a
by taligent 14y ago
You shouldn't be a happy Linode customer. They still haven't owned up to what happened during that Bitcoin incident and what they've done to stop it happening again. Major security incidents DEMAND transparency e.g. look how professional Cloudflare was.
So for all you know your VPS could still be hacked in seconds despite whatever security measures you have in place.
- cilo 14y agoThe bitcoin incident was a xen exploit that they couldn't talk about until Xen provided a fix and disclosed themselves. They talk about it, without referencing the bitcoin incident specifically, here http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-and-how-we-handled-them/ http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-an...
- ZoFreX 14y agoWhat was "that Bitcoin incident"?
- gpjt 14y agoSecond hit on the Google results for "linode bitcoin incident" is this: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacked-bitcoin-accounts-emptied-030212 http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacke...