There is a serious bug in older versions of Fantastico that can allow a hacker to gain root access to servers that have not updated Fantastico. If yiou have a server that has Fantastico installed on it, update Fantastico immediately. For more details on the bug check out http://www.netenberg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5614

Not exactly "new" news but people should be keeping all server scripts up to date regardless.

No but I did have a client fall victim to this. After many hours of reinstalling his OS, software, and restoring his data I thought posting a warning might save others some trouble.

Useful information, thanks

Really useful information.. I feel clients need to keep there application update to latest stable version rather that facing problems.