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A True Story
A year or two after the turn of the millennium, I lost a server through the disastrous compromise of a popular web-based application. Thankfully, although the server was in use, there were no services on it that couldn't wait a few days before being restored.
The first clue that something was wrong was some strange filesystem behavior while logged in over SSH. I checked the Apache error logs, and – lo and behold – I found some output detailing a wget transaction. The wget file transfer was showing an illegitimate download from a nasty-looking URL.
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