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Confession

So today I come to you with a confession, I discovered one of my boxen had been successfully attacked and the attacker had by the looks of things used it for launching DDoS attacks. I feel particularly stupid because the entire thing was my fault, I left the root password as root. Although I must stress I didn’t set it to this, I was using a pre-build debian install because the d-i installer was broken under arm and forgot to change the root password to something a little more secure.

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2 Responses to “Confession”

  1. Martin Says:
    January 11th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    You should send your logs files into “You’ve been owned”, maybe they will give you £250 for your public humiliation :-P

    Sorry, I couldn’t resist :-)

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