Secure Your Box!

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From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 00:00

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The NCLUG mailing list has reported yet another machine getting 
hit by a cracker.  It is a very amateur job, if I am any judge.  
They slip in using some well-known vulnerabilities and explode
a rootkit.  Update your daemons!  Especially SMAP, SMTP (sendmail),
HTTPD (Apache) and FTPD (WU-ftpd).  Also, turn off any services
you aren't using. (ie, SUN NFS daemons scare me.)

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Michael J. Dwyer                      I doubt, therefore I might be.
mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu       http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/
Computer Science Major                      Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP

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From: Michael Dwyer <mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU>
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Date: 1999/04/09
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