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Da Penguin
Senior Member
USA
1094 Posts |
 Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 16:27:02
Ok ladies and gents, you probably all know, ormost of you that use hotline, that the server has been down the past couple of days. Sorry for the problems, phone line was being swapped out. However this is not my 'complaint'.
apparently, SOMEHOW, SOMEONE had come into the server about 2 hours ago and deleted a good portion of files. Thank god i give the final 'empty trash' command...
Anyhue, This person and their IP have been banned. The name they went by was both 'new admin' and 'gshag33'.
Here comes the 'shocker'....
This person was logged in using tiMacLover's admin account. How this happend i do not know, but this person also UL'd a few files as well, i am unstuffing them now to see what they are. I would like to be able to speak to the Mods about this, and im sorry if i am making any enimies in this post. Anyhue, a lil 'private chat' about tis would be nice. If anyone wants to get secure, mail me at: magicpenguin@mac.com~The Penguin P.S.- All files were restored and acounts fixed. Everything is fine now. Ti's account has also been suspended. |Captain, Intelligence Operations|
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 16:57:17
quote:
Ok ladies and gents, you probably all know, ormost of you that use hotline, that the server has been down the past couple of days. Sorry for the problems, phone line was being swapped out. However this is not my 'complaint'.Anyhue, This person and their IP have been banned. The name they went by was both 'new admin' and 'gshag33'.
Here comes the 'shocker'....
This person was logged in using tiMacLover's admin account. P.S.- All files were restored and acounts fixed. Everything is fine now. Ti's account has also been suspended.
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this is one of the reasons i don't do hotline and never liked the idea from the start. methinks everybody should turn off filesharing and reexamine passwords and basic net security of anything related or connected to machines that have been connected to that server until this settles out.
<ALARMIST MODE>
hopefully this is unnecessary, but security issues have been a fascination with me for quite a while, does it sound to anybody else like Ti's machine was hacked from outside? jt  ™ 
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 01 Apr 2002 : 18:16:31
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this person also UL'd a few files as well, i am unstuffing them now to see what they are.
I'd be carefull with that...
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2002 : 06:39:11
Nice title for this thread...  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2002 : 16:01:25
Hotline isn't a very secure system, that is true.What other options are there? Secure FTP? If we want a GUI, we can either use an FTP system, or AppleShare over IP. At least with AppleShare, passwords are encrypted, and Da Penguin would have tighter control over the systyem. The Downside being it;s a bit slower. I'm all for the AppleShare, but I'm not sure exactly which system is running the server, so I dunno if we could do it. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac -
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