And we're back up

[SineSwiper]

Another damn hack in. This time from a Exim root exploit. Debian came out with a patch on Dec 10th, and it was broken in on Dec 15th. So, 5 days in-between. I guess I'm going to have to set up a DAILY security patch automatic update, despite shit breaking on automatic updates. (I do manual updates, but not that fast.)

I thought I cleaned it up, but it wouldn't come back up on a reboot, and VPSLink told me to reinstall. (Yeah, yeah, every file is suspect.) Fortunately, it's going from Debian to Debian, so it wasn't too bad a reinstall.

[Eric]

Thank goodness, can't lose both this AND the Empornium/PureTNA.

[kali o.]

I am gonna choose now to ask -- whatever happened to the frontpage pic? Been broken for a while.

http://tows.cc/gfx/mainlogo.gif

[SineSwiper]

Yeah, been broken for a while. Need to change the redirect to point straight to the forum.

[Imakeholesinu]

So was anything taken? Should we change pws?

[Shrinweck]

Yeah, god forbid they gain the ability to post under my name.

[Shellie]

I think it was more of a worm type thing where they use the server to send out spam.

[SineSwiper]

I think it was more of a worm type thing where they use the server to send out spam.

Fucking unoriginal. Spam: that's all they care about. Nobody wants to create viruses that destroy HDs, or print out goofy stuff at 5PM on a Sunday, or whatever. Same goes for hacking, unless it's a public/political cause.

Anyway, I've got cron-apt running every four hours to check for security patches and auto-install them. Try to beat that timeframe!

[Zeus]

Everything's about the coin nowadays, Sine. For a long time, the hacking community was all about getting noticed, being the one to actually be able to get it done. Not anymore. All kids care about is the coin, now. Money = Cred nowadays, didn't you get the memo?

[Shrinweck]

Coin? Cred? Ugh.

[SineSwiper]

Everything's about the coin nowadays, Sine. For a long time, the hacking community was all about getting noticed, being the one to actually be able to get it done. Not anymore. All kids care about is the coin, now. Money = Cred nowadays, didn't you get the memo?

Yeah, I knew that already. My friends and I talk about that sort of thing at length now and again. We actually "miss" those old viruses. And all of the perfect viruses that we could create (but of course, won't) that would cause mass chaos to the corporate world in a heartbeat.

One was close. There was one in the news several years ago that would pass various documents to other email addresses on Windows. Imagine if some VPs payroll sheet ends up on a distro somewhere. Or worse, just print out a bunch of stuff. I still think it would have been a fun virus to print out gay porn at around 6PM on a Friday until it runs out of paper. Not only do you have the shock of millions of secretaries crying out in horror on Monday morning, but you run them out of ink and paper.