On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:21, D. R. Evans wrote:
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> On 6 Nov 2003 at 10:49, Jack Coates wrote:
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> > based on these scans and the vger results, I don't think postfix is
> > misconfigured at all; the attacker is logging in and sending those mails
> > from localhost. format the drive and start over.
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> 
> And install something that runs from a CD and daily checks for the presence 
> of rootkits (like chkrootkit, for example), to stop this happening again -- 
> or at least so you know when it happens.
> 
>   Doc
> 

I recently saw something really simple and evil :-) It was a ten minute
cron job that compared timestamps of a few files like /etc/password and
/etc/shadow with copies of them that were placed in a hidden directory.
If the compare failed, the machine would wall that you'd tripped it up
with a code message -- admins would realize their mistake, crackers
would know something was wrong but wouldn't know what. Sixty seconds
later, shutdown -h now :-)

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...


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