FTC Releases Alert on Tech-Support Scams

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on tech-support themed telephone scams. In these schemes, fraudulent callers claim to be from legitimate technical support organizations and offer to fix computer problems that don't exist. Users should not give control of their computers to...

Solaris finger bug

Hi all: Recently, we monitored a cracker from Eastern Europe, who ran 'finger 9@host' against a Solaris 7 box, and got the following result: Login Name TTY Idle When Where daemon ??? . . . . bin ??? pts/1 Oct 2, 2002 xxx.lbl.gov sys ??? . . . . account1 ??? pts/8 Jul 20, 2000 yyy.lbl.gov account2...