Our Website has been cracked!!!!

Scott Mitchell scott.mitchell at mail.com
Wed Jul 25 22:19:19 BST 2001


On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:39:42PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Lee, Ian,
> 
> Looks like some a$%!holes have cracked the UKUG website. Take a look at my
> homepage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark
> 
> I'll replace my index.html but what other damage have they done

Well, my money would be on the telnetd exploit that seems to big this week
(see the banner on http://www.freebsd.org/ if you hadn't heard about this
one).  Probably shouldn't be running plain old telnet on a publicly
accessible machine...

Time to change some ssh keys, I guess :-(

	Scott

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