Re: Dummies got a sample page

From: Ryan Russell (ryanat_private)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 21:15:30 PDT

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    On Wed, 30 May 2001, James Edwards wrote:
    
    > Today I discovered that the sample pages installed when IIS is
    > installed had been defaced (Ya' know the standard "F*** USA
    > Government"). Hadn't noticed earlier since the real pages for the web
    > site were untouched.
    
    Any idea when?  (Timestamp on defacement files?)
    
    > I noticed that the firewall installed on the NT
    > 4.0 SP6a server wasn't responding, and so I checked "Services". They
    > had *all* been set to "Disabled", so naturally the firewall services
    > weren't running.  The system has (and had) all of the current
    > services packs and security patches installed. The site is running
    > Cold Fusion. Any suggestions as to what flavor of attack was
    > employed, and the best methods of countering it would be appreciated.
    
    That vast majority of those defacements were done with the original
    unicode hole, which presumably was one of the hotfixes you had installed.
    
    However, at the tail end of the "hack week", this hole was announced:
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2708
    
    And it was used in a few of the pro-China defacements, and basically came
    into immediate use.  That hole is only 15 days old today.  Did you have
    that hotfix installed, and have it installed before the defacement?
    
    					Ryan
    



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