[TriLUG] Have I been compromised?

[Sinner from the Prairy]

Avui, Dijous 23 Maig 2002 15:04, no tenieu res mes que fer i me vareu enviar 
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> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > 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.

> Thanks, I feel much better now   :(

One year ago, with CPUs much less powerfull, the "record" was a 50-minutes 
root-ownership to a default Red Hat Linux 6.2 (with no actualizations 
whatsoever).

Check out my Linux Security 101:

http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/security/
http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/security/five.html



Salut,
Sinner
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RedHat QA Test Engineer  --  Running RedHat 7.3 on i386smp
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