[TriLUG] invisible directories...
Gregory Woodbury
ggw at wolves.homeip.net
Tue Apr 22 00:30:10 EDT 2003
"It was written once upon a time (by Turnpike Man):"
>
> Reading all this is kinda disturbing. I hate seeing this kind of crap going
> on. Are there ways he could have prevented this, besides never plugging in to
> a network? Was his FTP the most probable point of entry? If you find out how
> they did it, I'd love to know, thanks and good luck jeff.
>
> David M.
Installing a firewall, and keeping the system up to date are the primary
defenses.
I suspect that FTP might be the problem, especially if he is *not* using
vsftpd. The selection of what server program to use, and keeping them
up to date are critical.
I once had a RH5.x box cracked via a BIND (DNS) exploit, but that was
long ago and not so far away.
--
Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U
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