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Re: severity of break-in?



At 12:54 PM -0700 8/31/05, Ted Dively wrote:
On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:

It's not an issue of system security, but user security. Your system wasn't compromised, but a user was exploited. All of the above runs in user land. It's your user(s) that have done this, either maliciously or stupidly from insecure practices.

Yep, as I thought. BTW, I rebooted, then reset the critical users' passwords before reconnecting the box to the network/Internet. So far, so good. Thanks Dan.

If it was a Trojan, it probably didn't compromise a password, but it never hurts to change passwords frequently anyway.
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-dhan

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