Hello from Gregg C Levine Barton, folks, my AT&T DSL hookup is also a COVAD job. Apparently COVAD supplies the high-speed data lines for AT&T, how I don't know. I did not ask.
However, since I saw one of those attempts streaming at my setup, about a week earlier, I can sympathize with you. I have open on my Link Sys router, the ports for SSH, and HTTP, and also VNC, the hacker who came from a Korean college, was trying to break in via the SSH port, my guess is that he could not guess the root password. Since I never use default root passwords, he was out of luck. All of those point to my Linux box, obviously running Intel Linux. Slackware in fact. Incidentally, Barton, is your (their) router a Cisco unit? I believe they have connectors used to administer the router, typically a dedicated network point, or worse a serial access point. From that, the logs could be dumped, and examined to prove what did happen. And I am just guessing there. "As there have been (silly) attempts to hack our VM based webservers from a "Broadband Residential Gateway" in Taiwan, I'm wondering if they have found a way to hack our router?" Interesting concept. Only if their unit, was the same as the one at your place. Which is certainly not the case, I surmise. Good luck sorting out your problems Barton. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Barton Robinson > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LINUX-390] linuxvm.org offline > > Our ISP, COVAD was offline saturday, claiming our (their) router > had a problem. As there have been (silly) attempts to hack our > VM based webservers from a "Broadband Residential Gateway" in > Taiwan, I'm wondering if they have found a way to hack our router? > > For those of you unaware, our host supports the URL for > several vm user groups as well as hosting the following: > > Linuxvm.org > Linuxvm.com > Velocitysoftware.com > > > > "If you can't measure it, I'm Just NOT interested!"(tm) > > /************************************************************/ > Barton Robinson - CBW Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Velocity Software, Inc Mailing Address: > 196-D Castro Street P.O. Box 390640 > Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View, CA 94039-0640 > > VM Performance Hotline: 650-964-8867 > Fax: 650-964-9012 Web Page: WWW.VELOCITY-SOFTWARE.COM > /************************************************************/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
