Re: You've Been Hacked!

[Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>]

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:06:30PM -0500, Miss Yvette Seifert Hirth, CCP, CDP 
wrote:
> Our technical contact called me this morning and told me that we were
> hacked.  Our news server was sending out some Hindu newspaper.  Apparently,
> some Indian nationals hijacked our news port.

Apparently?

It could be that u have simply a miss configured (open relay) mail server.
And it could be that the Cracker had used any vulnerability on that server,
not only the news port.

Greetings
Bernd

> BTW, we ran that free script, "Shields Up" GRC.COM, not more than a month
> ago.  It gave us flying colors; it said we were "very secure".  With all due
> respect to the author, "ya get what ya pay for".

Shields UP is for Windows Systems only and will not test a Unix Server
Security at all.

Greetings
Bernd
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