From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 24 10:44:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11331 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11249; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA26882; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:48:19 +0300 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:48:18 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: jaeger cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Amancio Hasty , hackers@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, jaeger wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > All we have are the "last" logs, which show: > > > > jkh ttyp2 a235.pu.ru Sun Jun 23 16:50 - 17:18 (00:28) > > jkh ttyp3 a235.pu.ru Sun Jun 23 15:00 - 15:34 (00:33) > > > > If someone at the russian site could help correlate this time (PST) to > > the local time at wherever a235.ru.pu came in from, we could at least > > narrow down which user(s) it might have been. > > > This appears to be a Dialup IP connection. If the machine logging > the terminal server (or other dialip access device) wasn't root compromised, > we should see some useful logs. Probably a stolen account. > Because of the presence of the lastlog records and the generally > good security of FreeBSD, I also suspect there was no root compromise on > wcarchive. I'm concerned about the possibility of a DNS server compromise, > given the unusual traceroute results of the intruder's IP. > On another pessimistic note, I believe most of the telco switches in > Russia are still crossbars, which could make any attempt to trace the > intruder through the phone system fruitless. :< You may be in a mistake on that one... The phone calls in the former Soviet Union used to be traceable :-( So it could be possible to find it out if measures are taken urgently - and I think it has to be the owner of the dial up connection - provided there aren't hundreds of calls per day. Sander > > > > Jordan > > > -jaeger >