[TriLUG] invisible directories...

[Gregory Woodbury]

"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.

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