Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:59:25 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Yahoo hacked last night Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912081056280.65196-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912081638110.37369-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > 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? No system on the internet (i.e. one which accepts packets from the internet) is absolutely safe, it's all a matter of how difficult it is for your attacker to gain access, and making it hard enough that it's not worth the effort given the expected rewards. Hell, even SSH has had buffer overflows.. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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