Re: Hacked?

[Edward Marczak]

on 14/4/2000 2:05 AM, Robert Canary shot down the bitstream:

> Hmmm,  what is netcat, and how does it imply a comprised system?  I noticed it
> is also in the linuxconf-1.16r1.3-1.i386.rpm as
> "/usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/netcat"

netcat is is a program that 'cat's from a network port, rather than a file.
Its presence alone does not represent a compromised system, unlike the BIND
compromise (ADROCKS).
-- 
Ed Marczak
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