Hackers, Lamers and Script Kiddies
 

Unless you've been living under a rock in a dark dank cave on some remote pacific island for the past 2 weeks, you know that there were attempts to hack the Aural Moon web server. Apparently, these attempts have been ongoing for some time. I didn't take notice as I've been busy with work, family, gigs and augmenting other features of the Aural Moon web site.

Fortunately, one of the the script kiddies was a lamer -- agieagieyes. He left his footprints all over the place and corrupted an include file which tipped me and other moonies (who were on the site one evening about a week ago) off that something was amuck.

I've been mopping up for the past week. I've also stopped myriad services which we don't use but that Avian had configured when he setup the new web site. If we don't need them, why parade them about for these hackers to fiddle and diddle?

I have tightened up the router and firewall rules to thwart such attacks in the future. Only port 80 (http) is now open for incoming connections. If it wasn't, you wouldn't be here reading this forum posting or faffing in the shout box or scores of other things available here on the Aural Moon web site.

ALL OUTGOING PORT ACCESS has been removed!!! Even I cannot perform certain functions which I used to perform in the past. I must now ssh tunnel all access to the Aural Moon server.

This should also, in time, diminish the barrage of port scans and other activity wasting the bandwidth we'd all rather have for our Aural Moon activities.

So God of Pwnzage, IMHO, you're more like the Lord of Lamers.

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You Go Dawg!!!!!

Thanks for all the hard and tedious work. You can't really know how much we appreciate your sacrifice for the good of the Moon.

You're the coolest and best programmer this side of the Mississippi (which in my mind extends across the big pond accross several other continents and back over the warm pond and all the way back to the west bank of the Mississippi.) 8-)

Take a small break and pour yourself a big tall one. :vaxman:

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HI OHD , according to your demonstration ,what do you do of the Mississipi itself ? ;-)

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Double dang ditto that! :salute

Huck & Tom are obviously better programmers, with some help from Becky & Jim.

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Could the lamer be in Indonesia?

http://www.myspace.com/agieagieyes

http://www.youtube.com/user/agieagieyes

http://forum.cyberphreaking.com/member.php?u=5261

:D

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Count me as one of the rock dwellers...

don't they allow caning in Indonesia? If so, allow me take a whack at Mr. Pinata...

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I found that myspace earlier. He looks to be a lamer from that page.

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Can we take turns? I'll hold him whilst you cane him and then it's my turn.

These buggers have wasted way, way, WAY too much of my brief visit on this big spinning rock.

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I do not mean to be rude at all but no amount of hardware or software or whatever is gonna prevent a hacker or hackers or lamers or script kiddies or whatever from hacking this place. It is so easy to hack a place like this. With the right amount of hardware and software and technology and knowledge this place will he hacked over and over and over again i am afraid.
Just going to have to live with the fact that we live in the new age of the hacker and there is not a lot that we can do about it i am sorry.

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can we post him to a NAMBLA site?

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Yes he does look like one of those ladyboys from over there. The NAMBLA sickos would love him long time...

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Moonoffruits or the script kiddie? :D

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OH!:imp:

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Well, the way these kiddies accessed the site is now no longer possible. If they can't access another system from the AM site, they cannot propagate their scripts. In addition to that, there was a backdoor. That has now been removed.

Granted, Linux is a toy. I would never put anything industrial purpose up on a linux box -- or a M$ box for that matter. However, AM is just an internet radio web site. Nobody will put up much of a fuss -- save the the regular moonies -- if it is taken off of the net.

If, and when, I get the time, I will put the AM web site up on a secure platform. A system that had security in mind and in the design from the get-go -- not a poor attempt, hacked on afterthought.

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Thanks Vax for your mopping up. You're the Winston Wolfe of Aural Moon.

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I think that's a compliment. I had to google Winston Wolfe. There a company called Winston Wolfe that fixes computers.

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I always thought that these Hacker pillocks had some talent that could be better used if they weren't so bored. I'm changing my mind now.

Perhaps we should just hunt them down and chop off their hands. ;)

Are you saying that "God of the porn age" or whatever his name is/was is one of these idiots? He's been in the shoutbox a few times.

Like all the others I thank you for your hard work VAX.

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Yeap.

21st C. Pwnzoid mephraimo@gmail.com
God of Pwnzage orlamic@gmail.com
uykucocuk uykucocuk@hotmail.com

Another reason I despise services which provide toss away email accounts.

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Vex if you want to make his day even worse head on over to here...

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/security

its dslreports security forum they eat this kind of shit up :)

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Hello?! Winston Wolf from Pulp Fiction. Harvey Keitel as "The Wolf" - "I solve problems"

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Never saw it. I'm not much of a TV/film person. However, I certainly would NOT give patronage to any film with mouthpieces for the cult of scientology.

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Thanks Jim for explaining it. :thumbsup:

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Except that I still don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

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IT'S A COMPLIMENT!!!! (you sure know how to spoil a joke).

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First thanks for shutting down the script kiddies VAX, good job.

On the other hand, Linux is not a "toy", it's in use in enterprise systems all over the world from embedded systems to mainframes. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but all of Google runs on Linux and it's certainly one of the most heavily used sites in existence and I don't think I've ever seen Google go down, maybe it has, but I use it every day and it works very well. Amazon is now on Linux as well.

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Thanks.


Market penetration/application (quantity) does not correlate into quality. McDonald's, by that metric, would be the best food in the universe. We can argue in another thread.

The all or nothing security model wherein one gains all by a shared password is not security nor secure. Such mistakes were made in early OSs -- you know, the ones that existed before Billzebub Gates invented the computer and Al Gore invented the internet -- and more secure follow-ons were born out of the knowledge of those early mistakes. Layer upon that CRapache and then a gazillion lines of obfuscated scripts written by 14 yr. olds patting themselves on the back that what they've created is so cool that the application of sound software engineering principles would be unwarranted and sully their creative juju.

Those reading this need to google "security by/through obscurity". It
is considered a "non-principle" is real security engineering but it is an accept principle in these aforementioned cliques.

NO CODE whatsoever should run on my systems unless I say it should run. Case closed. The problem is trying to explain to people that it doesn't have to be any other way is difficult because they haven't seen it any other way. It's like explaining the color orange to somebody blind from birth. There are concepts out there as revolutionary and evolutionary as the view of the world from Archimedes to Newton and Newton to Einstein.

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Mr. Wolf solves problems. From now on, VAX, I'm calling you Mr. Wolf.

Ok, I have no idea what all you just said in the main post, but Mr. Wolf, I'm glad you totally rocked that lamer's butt back to BASIC training. Excellent.

10 SAY VAXMAN ROCKS
20 GO TO 10


VAXman, you are Mr. Wolf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPsHKpti48
(warning: adult language, I believe, is the term).

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Please don't. It will make me think of the clams.

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I wasn't referring to market penetration, Linux is still relatively low on that metric, but site user load does matter, not only is it a measure of scalability, but with the number of users likely trying to hack google and amazon, it does demonstrate that Linux can be made robust, even if the standard ubuntu or fedora or whatever distro isn't terribly robust "out of the box". I'd be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that both google and amazon use their own distros.

Well Crapache, as you call it, is also used to serve many high volume sites (maybe more than any other HTTP server) and can be made robust, but probably not by using scripts/configs made by 14 year olds, same as above.

OK, no argument there, but in case you aren't already aware, you can not only compile your own linux kernel and disable anything you don't want, but you can in fact create your own linux distribution so that you know exactly what is running and/or installed on the box. You can even compile the whole distro from source if you want so you can set all the make parameters. It's a lot of work and I doubt you have the time or inclination (I considered doing it once but decided I didn't want to deal with it), but in case you are interested here's a couple links that describe how to do it:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...questid=170220

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

There are other HOWTOs as well, a google search for "roll your own linux distro" will yield many, but the infoweek one describes using an existing distro to start. Linux From Scratch is the whole enchilada and is referenced by the infoweek article also. Another option is BSD which builds from source by default and is the base of OS X IIRC, maybe you'd prefer that. I dunno if it's really worth it to roll your own, there are good distros out there that can be made secure, we use SUSE for our servers at work I think, but it is an option.

Not trying to make more work for ya bro, I really appreciate what you do for us on the Moon, just passing along the info. :)

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There always been a few misnomers that have bothered me. One is the fact that the 2nd Amendment gives you the right to bear arms (it does not, however, the right has been legislated throught time and is valid).

It's sad how things like this have been passed on throughout time as fact.

I have always been an Al Gore fan. Even though no politician is perfect, and most are not even close, I have admired his positions. I always thought this statement was wrong - I can't believe someone would be as stupid as to say something so blatantly false, and it turns out he never did. I'd never checked before, and I finally decided to.

Follow these links and you will see how the words were taken out of context. Agreed, the context is somewhat self-serving, but I don't believe most of what politicians say anyway.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

http://www.sethf.com/gore/

Before you say I selectively picked these links, bear in mind that the first page when I googled it all defended the misquote.

Same thing happens to a lot of Bush quotes too. So while I appreciate your hard work and and generally find the politics/Microsoft bashing amusing (although a bit tiresome), you have to agree that this is just a false label to hang.

Of course, if you still want to quote him as such, go for it - everyone else does. they're not smart enough to think for themselves, they just quote what they hear as fact, to get a laugh. F'in hardy har har.

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Recent SCOTUS decision upheld the right to keep and bear arms. There has not been an opinion handed down yet regarding the regulation thereof.


We all know what he said. Al Gore is an egomaniacal histrionic idiot.
Right from your link and the transcript of the Wolf Blitzer interview. No level of revisionist history will change it... save for perhaps usenet alt.history.revisionism.

Sorry, but by 1991 the internet was well established. I had an email address as early as 1983.

The earliest RFC for the "internet" is dated 1969. Vint Cerf (one of the true father's of the internet) wrote his first RFC (RFC 13) in 1969.

1976 DEC released the 4 PLA LSI-11 which enjoyed widespread employment as one of the first packet switches (routers) for most of the internet. IIRC, Al Gore was elected for his first term in the House in 1976. Does Al drive a DeLorean with a flux capacitor?

ARPAnet, MILnet, NSFnet... all existed before Al Gore.

in 1987 I was managing an entire class B subnet of the internet.

What Al Gore did -- well, congress -- was to open the door for AOL and others after we (the US) were bested by CIX creating Endless September. This post is dated: 5338 Sept. 1993


So what? Nothing false. He said it!


You've completely missed the humor. Al Gore tried to usurp a claim upon something he had nothing to do with and those, like myself, who had and have been developing, managing and using the internet before his statement, find it humorous to be sardonic.

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Rick, ONE thing that most people misunderstand about the 2nd amendment is that it gives us protection against all tyranny, even our own government...it is one of our most powerful rights, read it completely

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I understand Gort and agree about the importance (haven't seen you for awhile by the way)...but what I meant was is that the 2nd in and of itself does not give the individual the right to have a gun. Many people hide behind that when they carry loaded guns in their cars. I've heard that line too many times. I'm not making it up, one of the ballplayers said it a few weeks ago. He was asked about his practice of carring guns in his vehicle, which upset his former team, and he said "I take the 2nd amendmant rights very seriously".

It's just not in the 2nd, that's all I said...

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vax said: "What Al Gore did -- well, congress -- was to open the door for AOL and others after we (the US) were bested by CIX creating Endless September. This post is dated: 5338 Sept. 1993"

Correct.

Vax, following the link, the three sentences below that quote explain what he meant. He never said he invented the internet, just created an environment for it to grow. Agreed, that's a pompous thing to say. And I believe he regretted that (at least I hope he did). It's very evident what was meant by reading the whole thing.

This isn't Hillary Clinton, who misrepresented the "danger" landing in Bosnia.

Like I said, you can quote it all you want....follow the sheep.

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Is it too much to ask to not bring up politics in the forums? Just asking... :deadhorse

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Also the year when the first ever messages were exchanged over ARPANET.

For historical curiosity: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/first_words.html


-Methem

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No, it's not. I'm fairly inactive in news and events, so I miss a lot. For instance, people have a fascination for Ron Paul. In the Salem Hill groups on Yahoo, many of the subscribers stand by him. I was trying to get some information to see what the big attraction was, and the moderator pretty much said the same thing, Jim. Seems that there was a big to do some time ago about religion/politics and they didn't want to re-open old wounds.

What was disappointing was that I really wanted a discussion - all you hear is one-sided (each way) and it is difficult to get real information. And even Carl Groves (Salem Hill, who's active in the thread) thought the discussion would have been worthwhile. But as usual, my busy lifestyle won out and I figured it wasn't worth it. The same will happen here.

A bit of a shame, because Methem comes up with some really interesting stuff (also he's emailed me all kinds of varied music items, and his buildings thread here is fascinating).

I continue to search for the person/group that can discuss religion and politics without getting their dander up. Thanks for the reminder Jim, I'll keep these items out of the forums.

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They've come a long way since using canaries (see the bottom of the link). Now I hear it's seagulls.:neener:

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The fact is that he made the statement and I'm not the first to make light of his histrionic blabbermouthing. When I find Al's name in an amongst the documents maintained by the IETF and IANA (deprecated) -- where you will find my name -- I'll give him a little leeway.



Sheep? It's sardonic humor. I noticed you didn't pick on the sardonic jab at Bill Gates. Time Magazine's Top 100 listed him as creating the computer.

Anyway, now that this thread has been hijacked into politics, guns, policing, Salem Hill and Carl Groves, and scientology movies, I suppose the initial precept of the thread has been lost. :(

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