Re: ftpd: the advisory version

[ben () ION AS UTEXAS EDU (Ben Laws)]

FTP scans are definitely on the rise in *.edu land.
Two have crossed our class C in the last 8 hours.
We'll see how the weekend goes.

I'm sure all the students, staff, and faculty
running Linux had their systems patched last week
;-)  They're always so *good* about being on top of
security issues.  Perhaps vice versa.

Ben Laws
Systems Analyst
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
UT McDonald Observatory

Elias Levy wrote:
> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:34:31 -0500
> From: Paul L Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
> To: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Re: ftpd: the advisory version
> Message-ID: <742197614.962814871@baldeagle2>
>
> As are we.  We've been getting many scans from Germany, and now we're
> starting to get them from the US also.
>
> --On Monday, July 03, 2000 3:14 PM -0500 Ron DuFresne
> <dufresne () WINTERNET COM> 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.
>
> Paul L. Schmehl, pauls () utdallas edu
> Technical Support Services Manager
> The University of Texas at Dallas