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Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

  • From: Joe Shaw
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 19:16:08 2000


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.

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Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."