Re: Rootshell pages hacked

["Alex P. Rudnev" <alex () Relcom EU net>]

SSh withouth S/KEy or some kind of one time password is useless in case 
of any compromyse passwords (except the case when you'd like to restrict 
acxcess to the trusted set of hosts). SSH itself do not believe to be a 
problem, UNIX one-time passwords are real problem. Another bad problem is 
_the same UNIX password for all purposes_ - I can sniff your FTP password 
and use it for SSH access (for example).





On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Michael Freeman wrote:

> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:45:51 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page)
> From: Michael Freeman <mikef () boris talentsoft com>
> To: "Adam D. McKenna" <adam () flounder net>
> Cc: Joe Shaw <jshaw () insync net>, JR Mayberry <rick () magpage com>,
>     neil <neil () junior uwc ac za>, Russ Haynal <russ () navigators com>,
>     nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Rootshell pages hacked
>
> It is not a fucking problem in SSH! Jesus christ, people do not listen.
> If it had anything to do with ssh, heres what happened. (speculation) A
> trusted host was compromised that Kit Knox or another rootshell staff
> member used, ssh was trojaned and passwords were snagged, and the intruder
> simply walked right in through the front door. Nothing sophisticated,
> nothing fancy, no ssh remote exploits.
>
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
>
> > They claim they were running only qmail, apache and ssh, but who knows if
> > that's true.
> >
> > I have heard rumours about an ssh exploit but nothing concrete.
> >
> > --Adam
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Shaw <jshaw () insync net>
> > To: JR Mayberry <rick () magpage com>
> > Cc: neil <neil () junior uwc ac za>; Russ Haynal <russ () navigators com>;
> > nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu>
> > Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 2:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: Rootshell pages hacked
> >
> >
> > I thought they were runnign qmail?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, JR Mayberry wrote:
> >
> > > Supposedly sendmail 8.9.1 is to blame, not ssh.
> > > http://www.sendmail.com/sendmail.8.9.1a.html

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