Re: [[cobalt-users] Server Hacked?]

["Richard E. Perlotto II" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Telnet is not very secure since it has the passwords in the clear on
the network.  SSH is better.  But I think that the argument is on
the fact that most RAQ/QUB owners are trying to run a business and
allowing users direct access to the server increases the opportunity
of someone hacking the box.  Especially if they are selling hosting
services for some low amount, almost anyone would be able to rent
the space for a short amount of time, exploit the box, and leave.

Also, most of the staging areas for hackers are from Universities.
They will find an easy location to hack into, and use that as a
hopping point to hack the real destinations.

See all the recent DDOS attacks.  Almost all of these were from
Universities.

Richard

Manuel Schmitt wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I still have some comments to the telnet discussion. I am at the
> University of Saarbruecken (Germany) here. There are about 15.000 students
> here and almost 75% have an internet account, private homepage, email
> address and so on.
> 
> Moreover, ALL of them have a telnet account to the universities server and
> as far as I know there was no security problem yet.
> 
> I don't know why but at it seems telnet isn't as insecure as we all are
> afraid of...
> 
> Manuel
> 
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