http://aplawrence.com/ Security feed at aplawrence.com: Thousands of articles, reviews, consultants listings, skills tests, opinion, how-to's for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, networking, web site maintenance and more.. hourly 6 2008-01-01T00:00+00:00 en A.P. Lawrence Copyright A.P. Lawrence A.P. Lawrence (mailto:rssfeeds@aplawrence.com) 2009-11-09T14:56:12+00:00 41.889582-70.894066 http://aplawrence.com/image21.gif http://aplawrence.com Linux,Security ; 2009/11/05<br /> <!-- LEFTADOK --> <!-- PCOUNT --> <!-- PCOUNT --> <p>A customer reported that a Linux machine used for ssh access (to in turn give telnet access to an ancient SCO machine) was refusing logins. I asked him to try logging in as root at the console; he was unable to do so.</p> <p>When I arrived on site, I found that I could not login as he had said. I rebooted to single use mode and started peeking around. The machine had been hacked; there was little doubt about that. 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Do you use Gmail or Hotmail? Your information may be at risk!"</p> <p>Oh damn. I went to my computer and typed in "Gmail hacked" and sure enough, found a news story that said the same thing. Arrgh - I immediately changed my and my wife's passwords.</p> <p><a href="http://aplawrence.com/rss/index.html">Full Text RSS Feed now available</a></p> <p>Comments: <a href="http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/newcomm.pl?commenting=/Security/phish-not-hack.html">Click Here.</a></p> <p><br /><br /><i><b>Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. Some were given to me specifically for the purpose of reviewing them.</b></i></p> <p><i><b>I resell or can earn commissions from the sale of some of these items. Links within these pages may be affiliate links that pay me for referring you to them. That's mostly insignificant amounts of money; whenever it is not I have made my relationship plain. 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His hobbies include yoga,cycling, cooking and he <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com/about.html">runs his own business.</a> Details here:</i><br /><br /> <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com">http://gayatri-hitech.com</a> <br /><a href="http://spam-cheetah.com">http://spam-cheetah.com</a> </p> <p> I will be really surprised if a linux distro ships without OpenSSL pre installed. I know that it comes by default since it uses a very liberal license. The importance of OpenSSL toolkit for crypto cannot be overestimated. </p> <p><a href="http://aplawrence.com/rss/index.html">Full Text RSS Feed now available</a></p> <p>Comments: <a href="http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/newcomm.pl?commenting=/Girish/openssl.html">Click Here.</a></p> <p><br /><br /><i><b>Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. Some were given to me specifically for the purpose of reviewing them.</b></i></p> <p><i><b>I resell or can earn commissions from the sale of some of these items. 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You can get an idea of how you'd configure this at my <a href="http://aplawrence.com/Linux/basic_selinux.html">Selinux on FC5</a> article even though it's a few years old, but before you read that, just let me put on my flame proof suit here... ok, I'm ready: I almost always disable SELinux sooner or later.</p> <p>Yeah, really. I think SELinux is a wonderful, wonderful idea. If used properly, it really can help make your system more secure. My problem is that it doesn't get used properly. So upgrades get done and the people who do the scripts forget all about SELinux and what YOU get is a broken app or a broken system. 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His hobbies include yoga,cycling, cooking and he <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com/about.html">runs his own business.</a> Details here:</i><br /><br /> <a href="http://gayatri-hitech.com">http://gayatri-hitech.com</a> <br /><a href="http://spam-cheetah.com">http://spam-cheetah.com</a> </p> <p> What is meant by OS fingerprinting? </p> <p><a href="http://aplawrence.com/rss/index.html">Full Text RSS Feed now available</a></p> <p>Comments: <a href="http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/newcomm.pl?commenting=/Girish/os-fingerprinting.html">Click Here.</a></p> <p><br /><br /><i><b>Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. Some were given to me specifically for the purpose of reviewing them.</b></i></p> <p><i><b>I resell or can earn commissions from the sale of some of these items. Links within these pages may be affiliate links that pay me for referring you to them. 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