Re: Patched Solaris Boxes being Hacked??

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

Any system this day in age to get hacked via finger, rpc and/or ftp can
not be considered to have been patched nor secured in any real manner,
thus these were exposed systems without security measures in place, and as
susceptable <almost> as any default widowns system one just got for x-mas
and exposed without patches and anti-viri software and secureity measures
taken to lock them down.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Compton, Rich wrote:

> Anyone out there have more information on ISC's reports of patched Solaris
> boxes being compromised?  Here's the quote from the Incident Handler's Diary
> for today:
>
> "Solaris 8 Hacks. We've received a few reports of significant intrusions
> into networks of patched Solaris 8 machines. Initial analysis indicates what
> appears to be a multi-vector attack, using finger, rpcbind, and ftp. In one
> network, the systems that got broken into did not have tcpwrappers installed
> nor did they have the rpcbind from Wietse Venema and Casper Dik that has
> tcpwrapper support. However, there were Solaris 8 systems in the same
> machine room that are behind on patches, but have tcp wrappers installed and
> they were not broken into. If there have been other cases of similar
> intrusions in the past few days, the Storm Center would like to hear about
> it."
>
> -Rich Compton
>
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