Backing up your WebSite is a necessary step for all users. This article describes how to recursively download your WebSite with all files, directories and sub-directories from FTP server, using Wget utility. First of all create a folder in which you are going to download a site. For example, let’s create the folder backups in […]
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Installing VSftpd FTP Server on CentOS/RHEL
VSftpd is an FTP server for Linux. According to its authors, it is very secure, stable and fast. In this article, I’ll show how to install and configure VSftpd FTP Server in Centos / RHEL and how to add new FTP user. The FTP protocol is insecure. If it possible, use SFTP – Secure FTP […]
Detecting FTP Brute Force Attack
Here are some simple commands that may help to detect attempts to hack your FTP server with a brute-force “password guessing” attack. 1. Count the number of running FTP processes. This number may be much higher than usual during brute-force attack. $ ps -ef | grep -i ftp | grep -v grep -c 2. Check, […]