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Subject: Re: ftpd: the advisory version
From: Ben Laws (benION.AS.UTEXAS.EDU)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 18:02:34 CDT

FTP scans are definitely on the rise in *.edu land.
Two have crossed our class C in the last 8 hours.
We'll see how the weekend goes.

I'm sure all the students, staff, and faculty
running Linux had their systems patched last week
;-) They're always so *good* about being on top of
security issues. Perhaps vice versa.

Ben Laws
Systems Analyst
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
UT McDonald Observatory

Elias Levy wrote:
>
> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:34:31 -0500
> From: Paul L Schmehl <paulsutdallas.edu>
> To: BUGTRAQSECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Re: ftpd: the advisory version
> Message-ID: <742197614.962814871baldeagle2>
>
> As are we. We've been getting many scans from Germany, and now we're
> starting to get them from the US also.
>
> --On Monday, July 03, 2000 3:14 PM -0500 Ron DuFresne
> <dufresneWINTERNET.COM> wrote:
>
> > While others are stating no noticed increase in scans and attempts to
> > exploit this newfound root shell, we are seeing some evidence of such
> > attempts these last few days.
>
> Paul L. Schmehl, paulsutdallas.edu
> Technical Support Services Manager
> The University of Texas at Dallas