[NTLUG:Discuss] crackers

[Lee Knudsen]

don't you just hate it when you have your cable modem up-and-running
for LESS THAN FIVE DAYS and some cracker from jersey finds his way
into your system and gets root access and deletes /var/log/* ?? 
man, i *hate* it when that happens!

beware of running a standard linux distro off a cable modem.  i
would have never known anybody was there if i hadn't been tailing
both /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages and been at my terminal
at the very same time of the security breach.  fortunately, i was
able to save the last bit of the logs merely because i was tailing
them - i have the ip of the intruder, but what good does that do me?

oh, thanks for all your help on getting my NIC to work.  as it turns
out, it was a NE1000/NE2000 clone, and i had no problem compiling
that into the kernel.

i guess i'll be reading the security and shadow password HOWTOs here
in short order.  :)   and if you run a standard linux install off a
cable modem, i think you should read them too...

-- lee

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