Probably the best place to find links to root-kits and exploits is securityfocus.com. There are other places, but this is the best. Regards, Dustin john beamon wrote: <em>> Well...I found something. I made an offhand comment at Gatti's that may <em>> bear repeating. I had an impression that lots of us talked about all <em>> these apps that were insecure and that we'd never touch, but none of us <em>> stepped up to demonstrate it for the crack meeting. It was a joke, but it <em>> was painfully true for yours truly. Well, I think I hit the motherload. <em>> <em>> I did a little google searching on rootkits. Lots of security warnings <em>> ABOUT rootkits, but it took me a half hour to find a link to download one. <em>> I used its title for another search, and it led me to <em>> http://packetstorm.securify.com. There's a sub under there, <em>> UNIX/penetration/rootkits, that made me pee in my pants. I will be <em>> setting up a honeypot here soon with cd-only installs of Red Hat 6.2 and <em>> 7.x for my own studies. <em>> <em>> Granted, many of what we call "exploits" are the result of default or <em>> unwise configurations. It takes one line, for example, to configure <em>> ProFTPd to jail users in their $HOME. wu-ftpd takes two lines and a <em>> little simple /etc/group editing. There are more keystrokes involved <em>> opening vi. I think this page deserves a little peek from anyone running <em>> anything as simple as a telnet or anon-ftp service on their <em>> internet-connected box. <em>> <em>> Who's ready for a crack meeting? <em>> <em>> <p> -- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
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