[SLE] Was My Brand Spanking New SUSE 9.2 Installation Hacked First 12 Hours Online?

From: Paul Grope (pgrope_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/22/05

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    Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:56:24 -0400
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    The only services running were Apache2 and SSH, configured out of the box.

    Firewall configured out of the box.

    Left the office at 7:30 pm.

    From home, I logged in via ssh. That was about 9:30 pm.

    This morning tried to log in from home (about 8 am) but ssh connection refused.

    When I arrived in the office (about 9 am) I inspected the box and
    found very little to suggest an intrusion. A couple of
    clues/curiosities.

    There was one entry in the httpd log in the middle of the night.

    A whole bunch of entries in message and warning log written by postfix
    indicating that postfix not running.

    Most curious of all is that when I tried to create files as root, I
    learned that the system was read-only. I tried to create a file in
    the "/root" and "/" file systems.

    Does any of this mean anything to anybody?

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