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Re: [cobalt-security] RaQ2 Hacked within 1 day of being online
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] RaQ2 Hacked within 1 day of being online
- From: "Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:28:57 -0400
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
From: "Gareth" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I would suggest a sniffer or a script kiddie, it is the holiday season.
You
> can download many exploits directly, and they will detect the type of box
> and automatically adjust their exploit.
This is possible, but unlikely for a MIPS cpu. Besides, the user had the
latest patches installed.
>Your suggestion that the type of
> architecture could be the only thing that stops it from running, maybe the
> file was compiled for a different kernel version rather than architecture
> type?
Also possible, but wouldn't the error message have been different? Besides,
with most hacks, the trojans are compiled on the host machine to avoid the
above problem.
Kevin