Re: Hackers break into Pentagon system

[Nick Drage <maillists () smartways com>]

All,

At 22:29 26/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Rama Kant wrote:
> > As far as the DOD's sites are concerned, there is a rumor that one of the
> > Solaris vulnerability was exploited.  
> > Does anyone know of any details of the exploited Solaris vulnerability?
>
> Is it still a rumor?  I read (forget where, perhaps here) that the bug was
> in statd.  Does statd ever run without NFS?  Were they really running NFS
> on an Internet-connected host? 

The only place I remember seeing this was:-

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10737.html

Though that webpage does state it was announced on the bugtraq mailing list
first.



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