CDR: Re: Visit a hacked site, loose your computers.

mmotyka at lsil.com mmotyka at lsil.com
Tue Oct 31 12:19:52 PST 2000


Wouldn't the time of the hack be pretty well known and wouldn't the RPI
firewall logs be timestamped or am I naive?

Is knowledge being used as evidence of guilt?

Mike

>Andres Salomon, a fairly clued in RPI student, heard on
> IRC that the Yankees website had been hacked. He
> checked it out, noted some well-known Red Hat
> security holes, and came to the conclusion that
> there had been a DNS redirect attack. Total time:
> 5 minutes.
>
> The next day, the FBI raided his dorm room and
> seized his computers (along with a copy of ORA's
> DNS & BIND).
>
> Peter Trei
>





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