Blackhole

Chris Kenward kenwardc at tgis.co.uk
Mon Apr 11 19:13:36 UTC 2005


Hi Tom 

> I was reading an article where someone set up a "honeypot" to
> figure out how people were breaking into systems & figure out
> ways to stop them/track them...  After an initial system install
> (no firewalls, no updates), the average time for someone to take
> over the machine was, like, less than 4 hours.  (I'm thinking it
> was closer to 20 minutes)

Scary stuff indeed. Makes me want to ditch the 6 redhat servers I'm running
and go back to Windows 2003! <flame suit ON!> ;)

Regards
Chris





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