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RE: [cobalt-security] Hacker Goes On Defacement Spree In Australi a
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-security] Hacker Goes On Defacement Spree In Australi a
- From: "Drage, Nicholas" <nickd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:22:37 +0100
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
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> see the following url for a newsbyte on the subject:
>
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167607.html
>
> "... according to Alldas, all sites were hosted on the Microsoft Web
> server platform. The Alldas archive is at http://defaced.alldas.de/ "
>
> Note that even though my raq is not a microsoft web server,
> the raq was still hacked. I tried going to this site, and it seems to no
> longer be online. I think there were some peeved folks!
>
> Thanks for any insights you may give!
Two insights for you :)
One, do be very wary of cgi scripts.... but I expect you've worked that out for yourself by now.
Two, if I remember correctly alldas.de has suffered some DoS attacks recently, worth trying the site at different times.
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Nick Drage - Packet Pooh-Bah - Security Architecture - Demon Internet