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Re: Moscowchannel.com hack

To: [email protected] (snow)
Subject: Re: Moscowchannel.com hack
From: [email protected] (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:09:32 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "snow" at Aug 31, 96 03:12:50 pm
Organization: Bool Sheet Software
Reply-To: [email protected] (Igor Chudov)
Sender: [email protected]

snow wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Joel McNamara wrote:
> 
> > Not really crypto, but related to the DOJ hack in a way.
> > 
> > Moscow Channel is a pretty slick, Russian news/commentary page.  Their Web
> > site was hacked and altered by someone who didn't seem to like Russians all
> > Just a matter of time before some builds a dedicated Satan type tool that
> > scans for  HTTP server holes or messed up file permissions to make locating
> > potential victims easy.
> Write your web site to a CD-ROM and hard-code the base directory into the
> webserver.

A hacker who has root can forcibly unmount the cdrom and mount another
directory on that node. Not a good solution.

	- Igor.

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