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Message-ID: <20020816085742.58702.qmail@web12905.mail.yahoo.com> From: anodyne68040 at yahoo.com (Anodyne Perspective) Subject: more than idle threats I'm afraid --- security@...tralia.edu wrote: > Anodyne Perspective replied to my original post with > >--- security@...tralia.edu wrote: > >[snip] > >> To make a long story short, I woke up > yesterday > >> to find this in my home > >> directory : > >> > >> ./MeMe156/agent.agency.08.14.02.2348/added > >> .agent.sol > >> > >> > >> after looking through ; > >> /var/adm/messages > >> /var/adm/syslog > >> > >> to no avail, I used what I thought to be a clever > >> script that logs > >> auth.notice messages. NOTHING > >> > >> /var/log/utmp; /var/log/utmpx > >> /var/log/wtmp; /var/log/wtmpx > >> /var/log/syslog > >> > >> nothing. But then /var/log/sulog showed me this; > >> SU 08/15 12:47 + pts/0 <userid>-root > >> and /var/adm/messages revealed this > >> Aug 15 12:48:41 ***.***.***.*** unix: > rebooting... > >> > >> almost convenient that it was there at all. If > >> anyone else has any > >> information remotely related please respond. > >> > >> I administer a private lab running 2 Sun LX50's > >> involved in active Ionospheric > >> research and HF analysis. > > > >[snip] > > > >Sure, more than an idle threat to you, but only > >because you waited too long to mitigate or prevent > the > >usability or an exploit on your systems, or you > didn't > >prevent remote/networked access prior to now. > What's > >new about this? What's especially scary? Nothing. > > > >> > > # waited too long? Did you stop too see what really > happened here > # before you jumped in and shot off your mouth about > somthing that #you have > obviously have no clue about. If it were the old > lit_tty > #bug, I don't think it would need a reboot. > # And as for scary? Maybe you should take a look at > the nature of #advanced > Ionospheric research before you comment on it. Sure, > we #only pump about 1/3 > of the juice through our dipole array as the #big > guys(HAARP). Anyways, all > our systems are down until we can do #a thourough > low level analysis. It IS > scary Anodyne. More than you #know. I asked for > help, not blind ignorant flaming. > > http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/index1.html Do you deliberately obfuscate your posts? If these machines are so important, why are they online at all? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
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