ITworld.com – Often referred to as a “chroot jail” or a “padded cell” because users cannot escape from the directories into which they are put when they log in, the basic concept of a “chroot” (change ...

A security warning has been issued by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University advising users of the Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD) for Unix and Linux systems that their ...

You may already know that, when FTP commands cross the wire, they use TCP port 21 by default. You may also know that port 20 is assigned to the FTP data channel by default. For further reference, see ...