[ale] close to home

[Jim Popovitch]

Perhaps this is closer to home than we all realize.  That is, perhaps it
is closer to Linux than Atlanta.  Is this an attempt by someone at UGA
to test/show Linux as being hackable?

-Jim P.

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:45, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > > Hackers apparently compromised a server at U. Ga.
> > > <http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040129_1307.html>
> > > That would seem to be for fairly low values of "secure."
> > I'll be interested in seeing what comes out of it.  Hopefully they'll find
> > out how it actually happened.  With so little information so far, it is
> > hard to say what was actually compromised.  At a large school like UGA,
> > you don't just have your IT department, each area or school basically has
> > their own IT department which connects to the UGA core network.
> 
> The server that was compromised was placed on the network by a department
> without anyone knowing.  The box was not patched at all.  It was running
> Linux.
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