Redhat servers rooted

[Alan Jackson]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:37:54 -0400
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> David A. Bandel wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:33:05 -0500
> > Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:
> >
> > I just got this note from my sister-in-law. Firewalls are good.
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:54:40 -0700
> > To: "Alan Jackson" <ajackson at oplnk.net>
> > Subject: Our Redhat 9 Linux server got infected with rootkit.
> >
> >
> > Our Redhat 9 Linux server got infected with rootkit.
> >
> >
> > No, once one server is rooted, the others weren't far behind.  Bet my
> > bottom $ the root password was the same on all of them.
> 

Surprisingly, they weren't. But I don't think they had tested the 
passwords against crack.

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