From: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Subject: [TUHS] History of exploits - request for authors
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:17:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171219201721.GA95741@accordion.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712191158340.92288@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:08:21PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> Leaving a "login" simulator on a terminal (quite common).
Well if you include that one, you may want to include the simple
brute force testing of passwords against /etc/passwd
(before shadow files existed). The login name and real names
(direct or reversed) would tend to get at least one hit.
DF
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-19 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-18 10:31 Arrigo Triulzi
2017-12-19 1:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-19 20:17 ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2017-12-19 20:32 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-20 2:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-19 23:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-29 11:22 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2017-12-19 20:25 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-12-19 1:25 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-20 0:01 ` Nemo
2017-12-29 11:14 ` Arrigo Triulzi
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