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[linux-security] C't Article on Juggernaut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Faust)
Tue Sep 23 19:38:21 1997
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:57:43 -0700
From: Bill Faust <faust@pobox.com>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
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There is a recent article in the German magazine C't that may be of
interest to those on this list. It describes a cracker program,
Juggernaut, which can hijack telnet sessions. The program is written
specifically to run under Linux. An english translation of the article
is available at:
http://www.ix.de/ct/english/9710142/
It also mentions that they are working on a version of the program that
runs from a boot floppy. That is, walk up to any PC (probably not
running Linux) on a given network , boot Linux from floppy, run
Juggernaut to hijack telnet sessions, do all sorts of bad things, eject
floppy, and go away.
Since the program is widely circulated, everyone should at least be
aware of the attack.
--
Bill Faust
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