security

root-kit-a-rama

February 14, 2011
security, sysadmin, ops

root-kit-a-rama # 2011-02-14 Last week, I got a complaint that one of our webservers, hosted in EC2, was responding very slowly. After some fiddling around, I could eventually get ssh access, the box was just dragging along a bit. So, I check the uptime and it’s hovering around 6. I check top and there are a few perl processes chewing up the CPU. At first I think this is some backend web app stuff - some DB processing or something. ...