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Re:Pro-security? Stay away from these hosters by dspillett on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:53AM (#9967188)
How are you scanning to detect the OS version though? And verifying if PHP came from a package or a separate compile? Some hosts deliberately fuzz external indications of the base OS so you'd need an account to log into to properly check this, and they could have a compile from source version of PHP due to install procedures that date back before major updates to the base OS (and were updated "the wrong way"). Your effort is laudable (I'm all for naming and shaming the insecure) but you are open to false positives which could cause you legal issues.
Re:Pro-security? Stay away from these hosters by dolfje on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:05AM (#9967521)
By using multiple versions of multiple software, you can determine the false positives. There are little servers that deliberately fuzz external in a consistent way of all software found. Mostly they only do PHP or Apache, but forget OpenSSH. If there is a hoster doing it in consistent way and ended on our shame list. Please stand up, you deserve a full new blog post about how it should be done.