By alexdicianu
Hi,
I was looking over this morning’s disk and network monitoring graphs and I saw an unusual amount of inbound network IO and disk write activity. Since I haven’t uploaded anything (or even touched the droplet today) I was wondering what that might be.
Do you have any idea? Should I be worried about suspicious or malicious software or any kind of hacker attack?
I was looking in /var/log/syslog, but I haven’t seen anything suspicious. Any ideas as to where should I look for clues of what might have happened?
Here is a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/BEmvMABzVP2
Thanks.
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