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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:43:20 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>, 'Mark Jayson Alvarez' <jay2xra@yahoo.com>
Cc:        'FreeBSD Questions' <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Need urgent help regarding security
Message-ID:  <8BFD83D4B5B560BBB38AC886@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20051117013004.CBEA243D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20051117013004.CBEA243D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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--On Wednesday, November 16, 2005 20:29:55 -0500 Steve Bertrand 
<iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:

>
>> I think we have a serious problem. One of our old server
>> running FreeBSD 4.9 have been compromised and is now
>> connected to an ircd server..
>> 195.204.1.132.6667     ESTABLISHED
>
> Ran into this recently. Please post the entire output from:
>
># top
># w
># last
># ps -aux
># uname -a
>
Just keep in mind that any or all of these could be hacked versions 
designed to hide everything the attacker is doing.

Once a box has been hacked, you can no longer trust any of the binaries 
unless you can verify their integrity with MD5 sums from the same binaries 
on a known good box.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/



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