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Re: Rootshell pages hacked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JR Mayberry)
Thu Oct 29 13:25:40 1998

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:47:26 +0000
From: JR Mayberry <rick@magpage.com>
To: neil <neil@junior.uwc.ac.za>, Russ Haynal <russ@navigators.com>,
        nanog@merit.edu

Scratch that, I was quoting a source which was inaccurate.
only email clients are vulnerable.
apologies.

> Supposedly sendmail 8.9.1 is to blame, not ssh.
> http://www.sendmail.com/sendmail.8.9.1a.html
> 
> > Hi there.
> > Apparently  rootshell.com pages had been hacked this morning by crackers
> > using ssh-1.2.26.?
> >
> > Any  got more news  about this  event,
> >
> > regards
> >
> > "May you live in interesting times"
> >                                          by  chinese  ppl

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