That is a good book. Some good information. I especially liked the 
reverse telnet explaination. I had never even thought about that.
Regards, Dustin
Shannon Roddy wrote:
<em>> The book "hacking exposed" lists lots of stuff - I am not sure if there 
<em>> web site lists as much stuff, but I know it has links to the utilities 
<em>> that they use in the book.
<em>> 
<em>> Shannon
<em>> 
<em>> Dustin Puryear wrote:
<em>> 
<em>>> Probably the best place to find links to root-kits and exploits is 
<em>>> securityfocus.com. There are other places, but this is the best.
<em>>>
<em>>> Regards, Dustin
<em>>>
<em>>> john beamon wrote:
<em>>>
<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, 
<em>>>> 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 
<em>>>> 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 
<em>>>> 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>>>>
<em>>>
<em>>>
<em>> 
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