Re: hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Brad
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:42:51PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > "Dzuy M. Nguyen" wrote: > > > > Yeah, I checked the /var/log and they did delete the log files. Could syslog be set up to forward the logs to a backup machine? Or you could set up logcheck to ignore nothing and have it email to

Re: hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Mon, May 01, 2000 Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote: hi, i just can agree with matthew. the crackers could have installed a back door anywhere, so a complete re-install would be the best, imho. are you running dangerous services? and, are these needed? could you exchange them with more secure services? th

Re: hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Graeme Mathieson
Hi, "Dzuy M. Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone hacked into my linux web server and caused some problems. I'm still > trying to figure it out. Anybody have a good link for linux security? www.securityfocus.com has some decent information, though the Javascript they use is a PITA. A

Re: hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Dzuy M. Nguyen" wrote: > > Yeah, I checked the /var/log and they did delete the log files. > > I started noticing the computer making a lot of noises, thought it was > a bad fan. It got worse and worse. I didn't think anything of it. Then I > couldn't get access to it via telnet, so I tried

Re: hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
27;s what happened. - Original Message - From: Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dzuy M. Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: Re: hacked my Linux Box > "Dzuy M. Nguyen" wrote: > > > > Someone hacked into my l

Re: hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Dzuy M. Nguyen" wrote: > > Someone hacked into my linux web server and caused some problems. I'm still > trying to figure it out. Anybody have a good link for linux security? > > I'm not sure how they got in, so any suggestions would be great. Check the logs in /var/log? Trouble is, if the cr

hacked my Linux Box

2000-05-02 Thread Dzuy M. Nguyen
Someone hacked into my linux web server and caused some problems. I'm still trying to figure it out. Anybody have a good link for linux security? I'm not sure how they got in, so any suggestions would be great. Dzuy