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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 12:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bpepa@sd40.bc.ca
Subject:   Re: hacking attempts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031257000.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905020120140.347-100000@msn.bc.ca>

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On Sun, 2 May 1999, Ben Pepa wrote:

> Today we had several breakins to at least 3 servers in which a
> mallisouis person used our servers to ping of death whole networks and
> other attacks to  others networks (not our own) and also had several irc
> bots running through out the night.
> 
> My question:  Is there some way to take advantage of sshd to gain access?

Very, very old versions of ssh did have a potential problem.  Most likely
the used some other path, probably imap.  (We had a breakin through imap a
while back.)

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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