[CentOS] Server Hacked: Cpanel

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Wed Aug 9 21:34:05 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:12 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:40:09PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> > The plain text password didn't bother me so much as my connection was a
> > dial-up Point-to-Point connection. One would need some special acces to
> > intercept.
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> CHAP autentication send the "password" encrypted over the wire.
> The problem is how it is stored on the ISP server.

YIKES! Good thing it was a local that I knew very well to be very
concientious. We used to ride our MCs a lot together and I came to know
them well.

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> Rodrigo Barbosa
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Bill
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