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[ILUG] Debian Woody ssh hack

[ILUG] Debian Woody ssh hack

Eoin Ryan eoin.ryan at ul.ie
Wed Aug 4 19:15:30 IST 2004


Absolutely, but my guess, from the way it was sloppily done, is that
they were compromising so many systems that they couldn't care less.

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:12:27PM +0100, FRLinux wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:09:15 +0100, Eoin Ryan <eoin.ryan at ul.ie> wrote:
> > wget http://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/debian-cd/3.0_r2/source/debian-update-3.0r2.01-src.iso.tmp
> > I didn't actually see anything in the logs that the hacker might have
> > been doing with this file, but at the moment it is still available on
> > esat.net.
> 
> Isn't it common procedure to actually properly patch the box so that
> no other cracker can enter ?
> 
> Steph
> -- 
> "Step by step, penguins are taking my sanity apart ..."




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