[CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

Fri Aug 21 15:22:38 UTC 2009
Geoff Galitz <geoff at galitz.org>


> 
> Also processes you thinkk you DO recognize:
> Just for testing how alert my co-workers were, i had a program called
> "kswapd", just calculating prime-numbers...
> They never noticed. ;-)
> 
> Without any preperation it's harder. No point in installing tripwire,
> activating apparmor/selinux afterwards.
> Those things should be done after a fresh installation.


Indeed.  I once found a gdm binary that had been subverted.  I'm certain
that would fly below the radar of many organizations.


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Geoff Galitz
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