Re: [Security-Discuss] Exploits

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 02:22, Bob Puff wrote:
> Hi Vince (& all),
>
> Yes, I did get the mod_ssl problem from that advisory, and you're right -
> the net-pfs came from the ptrace exploit that I finally found.  Thanks to
> my backup history, I was able to find each and every file that changed, and
> nailed them all.

Well done!

Hopefully you did not trust that you indeed got all and did a reformat and so 
on... 

One of the famous worms was a DoS scheduled for the future, while it also 
installed a keyboard logger. People stopped the DoS thinking that was it.

Meanwhile it was happily logging away.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

"For evil to triumph all that is needed is for good men to do nothing.
						Edmund Burke
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