>
> Since the machine has been upgraded, various systems need to be tweaked and
> prodded,

Including the system clock, which has now been properly set.



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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

At least it's back. You had me worried there for a bit, since everything was gone.
I hope you managed to get a track onto whoever did it and will tell him that Pirates@Home isn't what he thought it was? ;)


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Jord.

The BOINC FAQ Service.

The Pirates@Home server was hacked on Sunday morning, June 12th, at 9:41AM EDT.

It appears that the initial intrusion was from an automated scan, followed up by someone getting into the system and installing something to scan other systems. This was noticed almost immediately by network security and the port was blocked.

I spent yesterday morning going through the machine to verify that no user data files were affected (they were not) and finding all the root-kit and scanner software they installed. I now have quite an impressive collection of Linux exploits, if I ever decide to go over to the dark side.

We had been wanting to upgrade the operating system anyway, and since you should always do a fresh install after an intrusion we took the opportunity to upgrade to Fedora Core 3. (I should mention that the initial intrusion was not due to any outdated software on the server, though we don't know how they got from a user account to root.)

Since the machine has been upgraded, various systems need to be tweaked and prodded, but hopefully we will be back to trying out the new starboard app soon.


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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Seeing where my original post in this thread is, it almost looks like I did it. ;)

I didn't.
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Jord.

The BOINC FAQ Service.

> Just incase you didn't know , the xml stats haven't been updated since you
> were hacked on the 12th =/
>

Yup, and the Phantom has been User of the Day for much too long. :-)

We lost the crontab that triggered all periodic tasks. It'll be back today.

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-- Rusty McGee Johnson

> Not wanting to look like one of those *ahem* credit orientated crunchers =)
> just an FYI that the stats haven't updated since the 16th

It seems the automated task for doing this is failing, due to library problems. I'm able to run the task by hand and will do so when I can.


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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats