RE: Witango-Talk: [OT] mysterious file written by hacker

2005-11-13 Thread Troy Sosamon
I had an attack on my Win 2k server through aw_stats, but is all they could do is make directories and upload huge files eating up bandwidth and disk space. You need to make sure that you keep the log files for awstats in a different directory than the awstats programs. The log files need write pe

Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] mysterious file written by hacker

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Dumas
MacOS is up to date. Seems that aw_stats was the means they used to compromise. I installed it on customer request and wasn't on my list of things to watch out for updates and reports. On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Michael Dittbrenner wrote: Roland They are a web defacment hacking crew. Y

Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] mysterious file written by hacker

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Dittbrenner
Roland They are a web defacment hacking crew. You can see then at http://www.zone-h.org which is a website defacement site. Is your mac os up to date? Mike D Roland Dumas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > I have a directory that is used for admin functions, password required > (server defined re

Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] mysterious file written by hacker

2005-11-13 Thread Alan Wolfe
only a little bit of help for you but I don't know how helpful it will be... there are many ways to attack and compromise a server, one of them is through using the password (either by knowing it, guessing it, brute forcing etc). another way would be something like a buffer overflow, where the ha