Re: Hackers break into Pentagon system

From: Nick Drage (maillistsat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 28 1998 - 04:27:41 PDT

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    All,
    
    At 22:29 26/04/98 -0700, you wrote:
    >On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Rama Kant wrote:
    >> As far as the DOD's sites are concerned, there is a rumor that one of the
    >> Solaris vulnerability was exploited.  
    >> Does anyone know of any details of the exploited Solaris vulnerability?
    >
    >Is it still a rumor?  I read (forget where, perhaps here) that the bug was
    >in statd.  Does statd ever run without NFS?  Were they really running NFS
    >on an Internet-connected host? 
    
    The only place I remember seeing this was:-
    
    http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10737.html
    
    Though that webpage does state it was announced on the bugtraq mailing list
    first.
    
    
    
    --
    
    Nick Drage, Sysadm, Smartways Technology.
    ( nickd@ for personal email - thank you )
    



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