Comments on: Vaserv crippled by hackers http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2009/06/11/vaserv-crippled-by-hackers/ Digital & Satellite TV, 3DTV, HDTV, IPTV, Computers, Mobiles, Gaming, Internet, and Telecoms Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel15 http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2009/06/11/vaserv-crippled-by-hackers/#comment-5091 Daniel15 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:55:55 +0000 http://www.securitywatch.co.uk/?p=1465#comment-5091 A few minor issues with this article... It's VAServ, not "Vaserv". "The virus attacked the HyperVM software in particular, which is located in LXL Labs" should be "The virus attacked the HyperVM software in particular, which <b>was created by LXLabs</b>". And it's "FSCKVPS", not just FSCK. FSCKVPS are one of VAServ's VPS brands, it offers cheap unmanaged VPSes - http://fsckvps.com/ My VPS was on one of the FSCKVPS servers that suffered total data loss. Luckily, it was just a backup VPS, so I didn't lose any data. A few minor issues with this article… It’s VAServ, not “Vaserv”. “The virus attacked the HyperVM software in particular, which is located in LXL Labs” should be “The virus attacked the HyperVM software in particular, which was created by LXLabs“. And it’s “FSCKVPS”, not just FSCK. FSCKVPS are one of VAServ’s VPS brands, it offers cheap unmanaged VPSes – http://fsckvps.com/

My VPS was on one of the FSCKVPS servers that suffered total data loss. Luckily, it was just a backup VPS, so I didn’t lose any data.

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