Re: hacker attack: leaves .BitchX dir in root's home

1998-01-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Carlos Carvalho hat gesagt: // Carlos Carvalho wrote: My site has been atacked by a hacker using a method that leaves a directory .BitchX (or something close) in root's home dir. It gets the user/password combination of any user that telnet, ftp or use pop3 to get to the machine (no ssh).

Re: hacker attack: leaves .BitchX dir in root's home

1998-01-15 Thread Rick Jones
Carlos: BitchX is an IRC program that put's a directory called .BitchX in the users home directory. Either you have this and have used it or your hacker used it as root. Of course a hacker may have just created it so it might look normal in your directory. What's in the directory?

hacker attack: leaves .BitchX dir in root's home

1998-01-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
My site has been atacked by a hacker using a method that leaves a directory .BitchX (or something close) in root's home dir. It gets the user/password combination of any user that telnet, ftp or use pop3 to get to the machine (no ssh). What's the security hole that's being exploited? At first the