[huskerlug] Re: CERT Advisory

        I don't see if there were any files, programs, or whatever was 
altered.  I suppose a hacker can do as much damage by not doing 
anything as doing something, just by driving people crazy trying to 
figure out if the hacker did any damage or not.   ---Jim


On Thursday 14 August 2003 09:13, you wrote:
> That was on Slashdot yesterday.  It's a horrible thing, but it
> kinda' makes me fell better though.  If GNU got hacked, then I don't
> feel as bad as I did about being hacked. Although theirs was
> probably a real hacker and mine was only a script-kiddy....
>
> -Cesar
>
> Quoting Jaymz Ringler <jringler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > CERT Advisory CA-2003-21 GNU Project FTP Server Compromise
> >
> >    Original issue date: August 13, 2003
> >    Last revised: --
> >    Source: CERT/CC
> >
> >    A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
> >
> > Overview
> >
> >    The  CERT/CC has received a report that the system housing the
> > primary
> >    FTP servers for the GNU software project was compromised.
> >
> > I. Description
> >
> >    The GNU Project, principally sponsored by the Free Software
> > Foundation
> >    (FSF),  produces  a  variety of freely available software. The
> > CERT/CC
> >    has  learned  that  the system housing the primary FTP servers
> > for the
> >    GNU  software  project,  gnuftp.gnu.org,  was  root 
> > compromised by
> >
> > an
> >    intruder.  The more common host names of ftp.gnu.org and
> > alpha.gnu.org
> >    are  aliases  for  the  same  compromised  system.  The 
> > compromise
> >
> > is
> >    reported to have occurred in March of 2003.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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