From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 16:04:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FCF106566C for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:7:d77::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EC68FC29 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maximum3.maximumdata.biz (akbeech-2-pt.tunnel.tserv14.sea1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:a:2e9::2]) by bsdevel2.freebsdnorth.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD83C3B0D for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:00:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:04:32 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-BETA2; KDE/4.6.5; i386; ; ) References: <4E5EF2B0002E5440@> <4E72723B.4020309@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4E72723B.4020309@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109160804.32659.beech@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Please secure your FTP access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:04:35 -0000 On Thursday 15 September 2011 13:46:35 Allen wrote: > Sorry for top posting but can anyone send this to "Computer Stupidities" > ? It seems to good to waste like this. Anyone who thinks they're a > Hacker yet doesn't know how FTP works is not only funny, it's > entertainment. And also, the web site I'm speaking of, has a similar > story sent in from another reader, where they talked about back when > they were in a Web Development class once, the teacher partnered > everyone up with someone else, and so, since he had already made his own > web site, he figured he'd show it to his new partner, and said "This is > my web site here" and the guy, like a moron, highlighted ALL of the text > with a Mouse, and threatened to hit the "Delete" button on the Keyboard... > > This reminds me of that quite a bit lol. > > On 9/14/2011 5:57 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > At 21:43 13/09/2011, Sarang......... wrote: > >> H! there, > >> > >> I have seen your site and also got ftp access.. > >> > >> Please secure your ftp acces otherwise anyone can delete your data.... > >> > >> Why anyone? even I am also interested in it.. please move your ass > >> otherwise it will cost you. > >> > >> If you are not going to fix this problem then I will delete all the > >> files tommorrow... > >> > >> Take care.. > > > > You log in as anonymous user but the user whom owns the ftp is another > > one (perhaps ftp). The permises you get are r-x (thh last ones) not rwx. > > > > HTH > > > >> Ethical but Bad Hacker... All your files are now belong to us :-P -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------