Re: [cobalt-users] Hackers. What's the problem?

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Well, i am not one to defend Cobalt products, but, it is not just Cobalt
servers getting hacked, it is thousands of others Redhat servers being
hacked. Worst thing is, that, if one server in your network is hacked, you
may as well look at all of your toher ones, as the odds are problably 90%
they are hacked. We are switching from redhat to freebsd and win2000. May
not help, but sure can not hurt none.

David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony" <austservices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Hackers. What's the problem?


> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>
> > I've seen a LOT of info on this list concerning cobalt hacks.  My BIG
> > question that despite reading all of the emails I still can't get is:
> >
> > Where is the insecurity?
>
> I have had several RaQ3's hacked some with all services and others
> without.
>
> In both cases both bind and ProFTP were the access points. They are both a
> cause of hacks.
>
> You get different hacks depending what is running ie Telnet or not, Ftp or
> not etc. They are both a common Problem.
>
> Tired Techsupport
>
>
>
> >
> > No, I'm not trying to imply there isn't one.  I've had EIGHT cobalts
> > compromised to date, and I'd love to know which daemon is the cause of
the
> > trouble.  Is it ftpd?  bind?  (which runs as root, and not in a
> > sandbox?).  I've seen mention of these two on the mailing list, but can
> > anyone for sure tell me what the real problem is?  So I have something
to
> > tell all the people who aren't on the list who are asking me?
> >
> > Much appreciated.
> >
> > -Dan Mahoney
> >
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> >
> > -Tim Curry, Clue
> >
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