full-disclosure - Patched Solaris Boxes being Hacked??

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From: lwc at vapid.ath.cx (Larry W. Cashdollar)
Subject: Patched Solaris Boxes being Hacked??

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Compton, Rich wrote:

> appears to be a multi-vector attack, using finger, rpcbind, and ftp. In one

It's probably a bad idea to even be running these services in the first
place.  It maybe old school hacks that are getting these boxes
compromised, like finger 0@...aris_host and guessing passwords.