From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 8 8:41:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE19C15541 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 08:40:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for chat@freebsd.org id 11vk9C-000BUE-00; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:40:58 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA37388 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:40:58 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:40:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-chat Subject: Yahoo hacked last night Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Check out the article on cnet. I lost the URL, or i would post it. Apparently, crackers changed some test on the yahoo page to threaten computer world destruction with a virus if Kevin Mitnick were not released. Only lynx and outdated netscape/IE users saw it. Yahoo said no data was damaged, and the virus threat was a hoax. Question: if a site like yahoo has telnet disabled (thus disabling running commands directly) how could someone gain control of the system or access to privileged information? -jm ------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message