brute force ssh attack
Jan Schaefer
jan_schaefer at b0n541.net
Wed Apr 27 11:44:57 UTC 2005
Hi,
> My question is: They did not guess the root password,
> how did they manipulate files which are only writable
> by root???
The following articles at wikipedia should give you an idea what was
going on on your maschine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_%28computer_security%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
Hope that helps,
Jan
P.S. I would recommend an clean re-install. You never know what things
are sleeping and hiding on your maschine now...
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