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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: "Richard B . Johnson" <root@quark.analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux connectivity trashed.
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:54:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010329165404.A10181@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c0b854$f2cf4f10$1428b2cc@DJLAPTOP>
In-Reply-To: <000701c0b854$f2cf4f10$1428b2cc@DJLAPTOP>; from root@quark.analogic.com on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 15:34:06 +0200


On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> The penetration occurred because somebody changed our  firewall
> configuration
> so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had
> complete
> connectivity to the outside world. This meant that every Linux and Sun
> Workstation
> in this facility was exposed to tampering from anywhere in the world. This
> appears
> to be part of a plan to remove all non-DHCP machines by getting them
> trashed.
>

See the cleverness of his network admins, that spent their time configuring
a firewall to MAKE HOLES where there are not any...

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                          #  Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                              #  be with you, Luke... 

Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac27 #1 SMP Wed Mar 28 23:27:18 CEST 2001 i686


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-29 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-29 13:34 Linux connectivity trashed Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-29 14:54 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-03-29 16:51 ` John Jasen
2001-03-29 19:01   ` Doug Ledford
2001-04-02 17:42     ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-29 20:21 ` Roger Larsson
2001-03-30  1:42 ` [OT] " David
2001-03-31 17:20 ` John Kodis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-29 16:30 Jesse Pollard

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