[LINK] Re: [Oz-ISP] [defaced] www.rsa.com by Coolio (fwd)

[Grant Bayley]

Adam,

I don't attach any particular significance to it having been RedHat.

I do attach significance to the fact that RSA, a company that prides
itself on "E-Security", had a piece of software running on a high
visibility server that was vulnerable.

There's a difference.

Grant

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Adam Todd wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:41:31 +1000
> From: Adam Todd <adam@todd.inoz.com>
> To: Grant Bayley <gbayley@ausmac.net>
> Cc: 2600@ausmac.net, link@www.anu.edu.au, aussie-isp@aussie.net
> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] [defaced] www.rsa.com by Coolio (fwd)
> 
> >Defaced domain: www.rsa.com
> >Site Title: RSA Security
> > 
> 
> Oh that is a classic!  And a Red Hat server too :)
> 
> And on closer observation:
> 
> Connected to www.rsa.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> HEAD / HTTP/1.0
> 
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:42:00 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)  (Red Hat/Linux)
> Last-Modified: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 07:38:07 GMT
> ETag: "4004-5c2-38a65f5f"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 1474
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
> 
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> 
> Why does't it surprise me that they were hacked?  Sheesh.
> 
> 
> 
>