Do you think hackers are getting into more boxes now or do you just think more people are trying to do it?

I've been hacked about 2 or 3 times, mail bombed, DDosEd and who knows what not. It is not very fun and has been going on from Apr to Dec last year. In Dec I moved to a more secure operating system and a new datacenter. Keeping my fingers crossed that it has stopped.

i think its both, more exploits come out people dont update. This leaves more and more boxes open. Then people see the exploit and try to use it causing problems.

I agree. This is the number one cause, admins not patching. Sadly, it has happened to me once before which was not fun at all. Although I do now appreciate the lessens that it taught and I am a better admin for it, I think. Experience is knowledge!

Sorry to dig up an old thread. Was an interesting topic.

I once had it happen when getting a new box from a provider. They put it online, emailed me, they set it up wrong, so I emailed them back and asked for a new IP assignment, this worked, I got notification and between me getting the notification and logging on the box was hacked, compromised and launched an attack on my provider. :-s I didnt even have chance to log in my self. OS was re installed and no damage done because the box was brand new.

Other times hacks have happened was sites using unsecure code and their own site got hacked because of a bad script. Never had a server in production hacked though and no other sites vulnerable scripts have caused problems to the server or others sites on a server.