Back door in ProFTPD FTP server (The H)

Posted Dec 3, 2010 8:09 UTC (Fri) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
In reply to: Back door in ProFTPD FTP server (The H) by rriggs
Parent article: Back door in ProFTPD FTP server (The H)

and people who use FTP know for many years they should use secure FTP daemon. Why do you think there is a program called Very Secure FTP Daemon (vsftpd)?

Back door in ProFTPD FTP server (The H)

Posted Dec 3, 2010 10:43 UTC (Fri) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

I thought the "VSFTPD" acronym actually stood for "Inflexible FTP server that can not even log failures properly" ;)

Back door in ProFTPD FTP server (The H)

Posted Dec 3, 2010 16:53 UTC (Fri) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]

Yeah, and Microsoft products are lightweight, because they have "micro" in their name... ;)