[lug] i got hacked
Bear Giles
bgiles at coyotesong.com
Fri Apr 19 10:24:31 MDT 2002
> One final piece of advise when you rebuild, install tripwire. All of the
> firewall recommendations, combined with wrappers, log sentry (log check)
> will help prevent it from happening again, but tripwire will let you know if
> it _does_ happen again.
If tripwire isn't installed properly, it can give you a false sense
of security. In a situation like this you *must* use media which is
physically read-only - a knowledgeable attacker would simply update
your tripwire database if it's not on readonly media (not just a
readonly partition or file).
Bear
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