Hiding in the bunker

So the security measures I’ve implemented have got us locked down fairly tight. As far as I know anyway. I need to hire one of those kids that has nothing better to do than find the holes in peoples security. But I can’t bring myself to barge in on some Dungeons and Dragons game and politely ask who might be up to the task. Anyway, I’ve got shell scripts running every 24 hours that automatically back up the (individually firewalled) SQL databases for each website to a daily, weekly and monthly directory tree on the server. Then it runs an incremental backup (full backup weekly) on the entire website directory and save tarred, gzipped archives in the same directory structure. Then the whole thing is bundled up and downloaded to my computer at 2 in the morning, every morning. Then backups are made on CD. I can restore any site in it’s entirety without losing more than 24 hours worth of data. I know, the host is making daily backups, but this just makes me feel that much more secure.

I also implemented a script of my own design that checks for all files modified in the last 24 hours and sends me a tab-deliminated file that I can load into Excel and sort any way I want to in order to see if anybody has been playing with anything that I didn’t know about. Hopefully I’ll find the holes faster that way.

I had some strange attacks from Poland that didn’t result in anything, so I think my security must be better than it was. If anyone knows any bored hacker kids (they have to be better than I am at this), send them my way.