[27156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Wed Feb 9 19:11:17 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:53:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: lucifer@lightbearer.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 lucifer@lightbearer.com wrote:
> If you think that's bad, wait until they find a way to compromise Windows
> hosts on DSL lines. That... will be deep pain.
It's very similar to your friends RedHat box with NFS holes. It's called
File/Printer Sharing and any of the available trojan packages out
there. You'd be amazed at how many unprotected Windows file shares are
open with full access enabled.
--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
