[PLUG] Got hacked last night - HELP!

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Mon Oct 4 15:40:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:23:42PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> Well, lucky me. My RH 8 box got hacked again. That makes Linux just as 
> insecure as Windows. The only visible damage (so far) was that my home web 
> page got changed to "un-root crew ownz you."
> 
> What else should I check? At the very least how do I keep 63.164.60.12 out
> of my SSH system?

Unplug from the net
configure IP tables
get chkrootkit - http://www.chkrootkit.org/
clean system
run rpm -Va and figure out anything that fails the comparison

that's a start
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