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wwdevries

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    Patchman | http://patchman.co | ONSITE or REMOTE | Enschede, The Netherlands Our customers comprise of large web hosting providers all around the globe. Security is – obviously – e…

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    Comment #9292281

    We run scheduled scans and very soon we'll be hooking into Apache, FTP, etc. But Patchman is actually preventing malware from being uploaded in the first place by fixing vulnerabil…

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    Comment #9291961

    Founder here, let me know if you have any questions! Upvotes would naturally be greatly appreciated to get the word out in the US :-) Right now we mostly have large (and small) hos…

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    E-mail me at wouter @ patchman . co Would love to talk to you

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    Comment #9212633

    @switch33 No, our detection method is hash based. We also have on our roadmap to to content based scanning, that would indeed require un-obfiscating the code.

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    Comment #9212582

    Malware is by definition self contained and can simply be removed. We move the file to another directory, so it cannot be executed. Regarding security vulnerabilities, we specifica…

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    Hi, founder of Patchman here! Patchman was built for hosting providers as a tool to stop the endless stream of abuse. I'm happy to answer your questions!

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    Comment #9127454

    Patchman ( http://www.patchman.co ) - Enschede, The Netherlands (or remote) - Full time Hosting providers suffer on a daily basis from the consequences of the many security vulnera…

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    Comment #8602321

    Shameless plug: if you're a shared hosting provider you should check out http://www.patchman.co . Approximately 30% of your hosting accounts run an outdated version of WordPress, J…

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    Now that Google is pushing Google+ even harder in everything new they launch.. I just wish Google would somehow make it possible to merge two Google Apps accounts into one public G…

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    You get this error when you compile the exploit incorrectly. Compile like this and it works: gcc -O2 semtex.c && ./a.out

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    You get this error when you compile the exploit incorrectly. Compile like this and it works: gcc -O2 sheep.c && ./a.out

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    Comment #5704447

    Tested the exploit on CentOS: Linux 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 23 19:29:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (latest CentOS kernel): [user@centos ~]$ gcc -O2 ex…

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    Comment #5292373

    Excellent product. Keep up the good work!

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    Comment #5121210

    What does the humiliation on Facebook look like?

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    Within the Netherlands there are far more appealing solutions, such as MoneyBird. They've been rockin' at it for a few years now. To be honest, to me MoneyMonk looks like a limited…

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    According to the e-mail, this time around they will only sell in the U.S.