Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:32:19 PM MST Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-02-23 11:44, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > The harm in this > > demonstrated in this thread was opening EVERY PROCESS THAT BINDS A PORT AS > > THE USER to THE ENTIRE INTERNET, on both IPv4 and IPv6. > > > Except that in

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-02-23 11:44, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > The harm in this > demonstrated in this thread was opening EVERY PROCESS THAT BINDS A PORT AS > THE > USER to THE ENTIRE INTERNET, on both IPv4 and IPv6. Except that in this thread there were no processes bound to any higher port and in LISTEN.

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:38:38 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/22/20 7:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > On Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:17:01 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> On 2/22/20 7:07 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> Glad to hear it. A quick note, Fedora W

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/22/20 7:34 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:17:01 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/22/20 7:07 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Glad to hear it. A quick note, Fedora Workstation (what I refer to as the "GNOME Spin") may send out an update which resets your firewall t

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:17:01 PM MST Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/22/20 7:07 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > > Glad to hear it. A quick note, Fedora Workstation (what I refer to as the > > "GNOME Spin") may send out an update which resets your firewall to their > > defaults, which would ope

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/22/20 7:07 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote: Glad to hear it. A quick note, Fedora Workstation (what I refer to as the "GNOME Spin") may send out an update which resets your firewall to their defaults, which would open you back up to attacks. I'll pass this along, and hopefully we can get a more

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:03:22 PM MST home user wrote: > The original desire for a way to occasionally check for hack-in attempts > is satisfied by the 2 commands "lastb" and "last" suggested by Ed. > Other related issues came up in this thread; I trust that they've been > addressed. M

Re: how to detect hack attempts. [SOLVED]

2020-02-22 Thread home user
The original desire for a way to occasionally check for hack-in attempts is satisfied by the 2 commands "lastb" and "last" suggested by Ed.  Other related issues came up in this thread; I trust that they've been addressed.  My sense is that my firewall is as it should be.  The suggestions fail2