[TriLUG] Have I been compromised?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:35, Chris Merrill wrote:
> I've just read yet another story quoting that a default
> Red Hat installation placed on the Internet will be
> compromised within days.

Actually days is probably optimistic.  I've heard of
default redhat boxes that were compromised within hours
or even minutes of being placed on the net (yes, I said
minutes).  The HoneyNet project has more information about
stuff like this.

Tanner
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