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1996-09-01 - Re: Moscowchannel.com hack

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: snow@smoke.suba.com (snow)
Message Hash: cc5f4701a33f0ffe379e8b2bae668218d02ba007e8afd2b5a0078b070f5cc88b
Message ID: <199609011509.KAA26254@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960831151026.1002B-100000@smoke.suba.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-09-01 17:05:27 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 01:05:27 +0800

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 01:05:27 +0800
To: snow@smoke.suba.com (snow)
Subject: Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960831151026.1002B-100000@smoke.suba.com>
Message-ID: <199609011509.KAA26254@manifold.algebra.com>
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snow wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Joel McNamara wrote:
> 
> > Not really crypto, but related to the DOJ hack in a way.
> > 
> > Moscow Channel is a pretty slick, Russian news/commentary page.  Their Web
> > site was hacked and altered by someone who didn't seem to like Russians all
> > Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan type tool that
> > scans for  HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions to make locating
> > potential victims easy.
> Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the
> webserver.

A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount another
directory on that node. Not a good solution.

	- Igor.

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