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Re: [cobalt-security] Detecting Hacks Guide for Dummies?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] Detecting Hacks Guide for Dummies?
- From: "MikeM" <MyRaQ@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 10:36:10 -0400
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On 9/1/2001 at 9:40 AM Reed Phillips wrote:
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|I have rebuild my Raq3 twice within the past 3 days due to hacks.
|Hopefully, I did it correctly the second time around. I have a very
|novice understanding of UNIX. I have a few basic questions.
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|How do you know when your server has been hacked?
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|Are there any guidelines for restoring a server from scratch to
|minimize future hacks?
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Important rule: do not put the RaQ back on the open internet unless and until you have applied all of the security patches to it. This means that you should have some way of obtaining the security ptches locally.