Step 1. Check Active Logins. If a bad actor has hacked your server, they might still be signed in. The easiest way to check if this is the case is to connect to your Linux server via SSH and run: w.

The output of the above command will list out each IP address that is connected to the server and how many instances from each. As you can see, I have two IP addresses connecting to my server (one ...

I was talking to a friend the other day when he said there were no more than 0.0001 percent Linux users. So, so wrong. True, desktop Linux has never taken off. But, even so, Linux has millions of ...