Well phishing usually refers to someone pretending to be someone they really are not, in hopes of getting an unsuspecting person to yield them personal information such as credit card numbers or the like, so that the phisher can then go abuse this info and rip off the unsuspecting person. Or something like that. Not to be confused with a hacking attack.
Don't know the specifics of the incident you're talking about Abrachius, but we had an incident recently on our CSS server that i would categorize as a phishing attempt. Some dickhead was in the server when I joined, he was using the name |ADMIN| U.S. Army and was telling peeps in the server how he was an admin on all CSS servers, that his brother worked for Valve and hooked him up. I knew instantly he was full of shit cause noone is admin on our server but who WE say is admin. So i verbally played with him and asked if i could be admin, and how can we set that up etc., and he told me that if i payed him he would get me hooked up too. Assuming he had already been trying this with others in the server, i promptly banned his steamID and IP. I should have played along a little further and gotten info like where he would want me to send money, but it pissed me off that he was in there doing that. Alfred, would you guys be interested in having a look at the log file from this incident, and if so, where should I send it? -Artie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abrachius Doo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 11:48 AM Subject: [hlds] Phishing Attack through CS1.6 Server ? Hiho, my friend whos running a server where our dedicated CS1.6 Server is running on, just got mail from his provider the other day. In this email, he was informed that his server was used for phishing. So my friend shut down everything and put up a everything for new. No we are wondering, how the phishing was done through his server and how the came in. For now he doesnt want the CS Server to be back up again, cause he's not sure what caused the securitylack on his server. I am tending more to psychostats, if even software really caused the lack, it was an older kernel which had some known security issues, but my question is: Can someone find his way into a server through a running hlds? Thx for your help... _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
