angelneo
Dec 7, 2004, 12:24 AM
Hello guys, perhaps just a warning or some advice, recently a small server which I have was hacked by someone and they have left the all-famous ebay and suntrust signin/phishing files on it and start sending out emails on that link. Got a warning from ebay before I realised that I got hacked.
came across this article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm
This is getting way out of hand.
An unprotected PC that connects to the Internet can be hacked in minutes, and used together with other hacked machines to dispense spam, conduct denial-of-service attacks or carry out identity-theft scams. That was the finding of a test conducted by USA TODAY and Avantgarde, a San Francisco tech marketing and design firm. Several "honeypot" computers were set up in order to trap hackers, with monitoring in place to see what traffic they would attract. Former hacker Kevin Mitnick was hired as a security consultant to perform the experiment. Each PC was connected to the Internet via a broadband DSL connection and monitored for two weeks. The result? Break in attempts happened almost instantly, and continued long and hard. An average of 341 attacks per hour were recorded against the Windows XP machine with no firewall or recent security patches, 339 per hour against the Apple Macintosh and 61 per hour against the Windows Small Business Server.
came across this article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm
This is getting way out of hand.
An unprotected PC that connects to the Internet can be hacked in minutes, and used together with other hacked machines to dispense spam, conduct denial-of-service attacks or carry out identity-theft scams. That was the finding of a test conducted by USA TODAY and Avantgarde, a San Francisco tech marketing and design firm. Several "honeypot" computers were set up in order to trap hackers, with monitoring in place to see what traffic they would attract. Former hacker Kevin Mitnick was hired as a security consultant to perform the experiment. Each PC was connected to the Internet via a broadband DSL connection and monitored for two weeks. The result? Break in attempts happened almost instantly, and continued long and hard. An average of 341 attacks per hour were recorded against the Windows XP machine with no firewall or recent security patches, 339 per hour against the Apple Macintosh and 61 per hour against the Windows Small Business Server.
