Re: Special case in investigation

From: Rob Quinn (rquinnat_private)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 08:58:01 PDT

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    > My site got attacked where the IIS 4.0 web site got defaced but it returns to
    > normal within 15 minutes time. Really back to normal.
    
     Maybe you (the viewer) got hacked or tricked, and not your web server.
    
    > The IIS web server and NT 4.0 machine already patched and firewall(ed)
    
     How about all of the DNS servers for the site? And the routers along the way?
    And the DNS server your web browser used? And your web browser, and the
    computer it's running on?
    
    > BTW, is there any method the hacker can penetrate to the web site and attack
    > the web which already been patched on IDA-IDQ, unicode and unicode decode. In
    > other words, there should be no obvious way the attacker can upload the file.
    
     An incident a few years ago: Victim's web site was secure, but his DNS servers
    weren't.  The cracker changed the web site's A record to point to another site
    where a "defacement" was already in place. Fortunately for the victim there
    were no changes to the DNS TTLs.
    
    > If a person really got into the site, can they remove particular user ip
    > address from the IIS log? can he remove particular person's query from the
    > event log of NT? Can I confirm that the IIS log is reliable?
    
     If someone compromises your machine, it will tell you whatever the cracker
    wants it to tell you.
    
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