From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 20 12:16:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CF0237B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 94675 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 19:27:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 19:27:02 -0000 Message-ID: <3B5882AB.AF5EC096@iowna.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:12:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hoskins Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: probably remote exploit References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Hoskins wrote: > I'd be curious to know if a quick search for "..." and other attempts at > hiding directories turned up anything. Honeypots I've played with show an > affinity to "..." for hiding cracker tools. Not too sure why, it's easily > visible. Easily visable for you. Most people I know ( ~ 60% ) would never catch such a trivial hiding technique. And I'm talking about educated computer folk. They just get in a hurry and don't notice things like that. Of course, if they suspect an exploit, they'll catch such directories quickly, but not most of the time. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message