Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-10-03 Thread Preben Randhol
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/09/2000 (00:57) : > Well, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention and I had every unnecessary > port closed... or so I thought. I was still running the portmapper. So > when I ssh'd home today and nmapped myself, a couple of mysterious processes > p

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-28 Thread James Antill
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > have a similar funcitonality? I couldn't find mention of it in the man page. > > debsums but like rpm -V its worthless for security. only useful for > finding corruption due to disk crashes and whatnot. But this is so easy to fix. Consider... % a

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:49:00PM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would > tell me if the md5sum had been changed from the original package. Does dpkg wh

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:49:00PM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would Yeah, and you can type rpm -Va and have it tell you all about most of your pack

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > check the binaries tooo... > > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > > > > Please remember that you're speaking to a

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Michael Smith
Try using aide--it checks your filesystem (checksums, inodes, timestamps, lots more) to make sure that nothing's been tampered, and mails you a daily report. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/aide.html. It's good stuff, expecially on machines that are just sitting around with minimal

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
On 28 Sep 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > bash$ man debsums > bash$ dpkg --search `which top` > procps: /usr/bin/top > bash$ debsums -s procps > > Any output could be a problem. Of course this assumes that the listed > md5sums have not been tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > Okay

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > check the binaries tooo... > > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > > > > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do w

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > check the binaries tooo... > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would tell me if the

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... or maybe a httpd running as nobody ??? but most likley just news...from his prior comments c ya alvin On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > * Try to find a way to track who is connecting to your computer at 7:35 in > > the morning with a packet sniffer - e

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya william yestrue that grepping is kinda sillybut i just want to see if anybody even tried...am gambling that most try but fail to get in... ( assuming too that they did not modify the log files and binaries etc ( to hide themself i need to add *grep and lsof to that list to get a

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote: > egrep -i "failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal > port|blocked|denied|passwd"\ > /var/log/messages* There is not much to gain by this. If the information is found in your logfile, they didn't get in :} > check the binaries tooo... > top, ps,

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Phil Brutsche wrote: > * Try to find a way to track who is connecting to your computer at 7:35 in > the morning with a packet sniffer - either with another computer on the > same hub or on your computer with a tcpdump binary you prepared > yourself. I suspect it's much ado about nothing. I'l

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Use "lsof -i | grep " to find out exactly what binary is running > on that port. Then you can find out where it's at. Are there any > other hidden utils, etc? I'd also do a "netstat -an"

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya steve do the lsof and netstat thing and am curious try: egrep -i "failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal port|blocked|denied|passwd"\ /var/log/messages* try: last, w, who, tooo check the binaries tooo... top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc... have

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
Use "lsof -i | grep " to find out exactly what binary is running on that port. Then you can find out where it's at. Are there any other hidden utils, etc? I'd also do a "netstat -an" and see what is connected to your mystery port. Find out where your attacker is coming from. Robert Thus spa

I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Juranich
Well, I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention and I had every unnecessary port closed... or so I thought. I was still running the portmapper. So when I ssh'd home today and nmapped myself, a couple of mysterious processes popped up. To begin with: I nmapped my box and saw, much to my dismay: P