Re: ftpd: the advisory version

[aleph1 () SECURITYFOCUS COM (Elias Levy)]

Message-ID: <XFMail.000705153817.nicole () daemontech com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Daemon Technologies
Sender: nicole () xwin nmhtech com
From: Nicole Harrington <nicole () daemontech com>
To: Ron DuFresne <dufresne () WINTERNET COM>
Subject: Re: ftpd: the advisory version
Cc: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM

On 03-Jul-00 Ron DuFresne wrote:
> While others are stating no noticed increase in scans and attempts to
> exploit this newfound root shell, we are seeing some evidence of such
> attempts these last few days.
>
> Thanks,

 I manage 7 companies collection of servers (abt 40 total) located at 4
different data centers and for the past 2 weeks, I have see at least 2 ftp
scans per day. It started almost immediatly after the notice abt WU-ftpd went
out.

   Nicole

> Ron DuFresne
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It
> eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
> business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart
>       ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!***
>
> OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.

                   
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