Comments on: Practicing FTP Security http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/03/17/practicing-ftp-security/ Web hosting blog - industry news, trends, products and discussions. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:30:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul beddows http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/03/17/practicing-ftp-security/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Paul beddows Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:54:30 +0000 http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=246#comment-332 BTW when I posted my comment it inserted http:// in front of the 2 file names. that should not be there. BTW when I posted my comment it inserted http:// in front of the 2 file names. that should not be there.

]]> By: Paul beddows http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/03/17/practicing-ftp-security/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Paul beddows Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:52:54 +0000 http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=246#comment-331 I was suffering from attacks through FTP, until my web host, ixwebhosting, introduced a simple solution. I upload 2 files to my root called ftp.allow & ft.deny. This allows me to name what IP addresses can have ftp access. Since then I have had no attacks. Its great. All hosts should do this. If you want to see if it will work on your host which it probably won't, create these 2 files in this format using any editor and upload them to the root directory: ftp.deny ALL: All ftp.allow ALL: allowed Ip address ALL: allowed Ip address I was suffering from attacks through FTP, until my web host, ixwebhosting, introduced a simple solution. I upload 2 files to my root called http://ftp.allow & ft.deny. This allows me to name what IP addresses can have ftp access. Since then I have had no attacks. Its great. All hosts should do this.

If you want to see if it will work on your host which it probably won’t, create these 2 files in this format using any editor and upload them to the root directory:

http://ftp.deny

ALL: All

http://ftp.allow

ALL: allowed Ip address
ALL: allowed Ip address

]]> By: Scott Myers http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/03/17/practicing-ftp-security/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Scott Myers Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:25:19 +0000 http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=246#comment-72 Consider using FTP/WatchDog (www.softwareassist.net) to monitor FTP usage real-time. It makes it easy to keep tabs on FTP server usage (one to many servers); who's using it, what they are doing with it, transmission of sensitive data, etc. Consider using FTP/WatchDog (www.softwareassist.net) to monitor FTP usage real-time. It makes it easy to keep tabs on FTP server usage (one to many servers); who’s using it, what they are doing with it, transmission of sensitive data, etc.

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