How would You Respond If Someone Tried to Hack You???

[matronyx]

I'd turn off my machine instantly. Unplug my telephone cable, then wash my machine of any trojans.
It would be much harder for this person though if he tried to hack my linux box. 8)

[deakie]

so whas yur linus box addy then eh?

[matronyx]

[quote author=deakie link=board=1;threadid=1252;start=0#msg11879 date=1058300169]
so whas yur linus box addy then eh?
[/quote]

You would not be able to hack my linux box even if i gave you the addy. Try hacking a windows box before you try the BIG dogs ;D

[Xenocrates]

Thank you Matronyx for bringing a very important factor to light. Why do we believe that Windows is the most hacked OS on the planet? Is it really because Windows is has that many security loopholes or that many bugs?

The Windows family of operating systems currently sits on roughly 85% of the world's desktops. Before there was Windows, there was UNIX. Back in the early 80's, UNIX was the most hacked operating system. Was it because UNIX had that many security loopholes or that many bugs?

Do you see a trend here? Any operating system that becomes the most dominant one will be broken sooner or later by hackers. Bill Gates once said back in the early 80's that there's no such thing as a secure operating system. He said that for a reason.

If Linux were to become the dominant operating system tomorrow morning with an 85% desktop spread, Linux would eventually become the most hacked operating system. Hackers just choose the platform that has the widest spread. They will keep pounding it until they break it. If man made it, man can break it.

Matronyx's solution to being hacked is perhaps the best I've seen so far. You don't want to take any chances with these hackers today. After reading Ropy's post about hackers using trojans to setup porn servers, I would seriously not try to find out who's doing it. Better to take my box offline than to leave it open while going on a futile manhunt for the perpetrator. At least, I can go bughunting on my box in peace and quiet and see what he has done to it.

Wouldn't y'all agree?

[MiTcHiE]

what is a good firewall to use???????? keep in mind that i have gotel and i dont turn off my pc.

[Kutchie]

You guys need to start a forum on haxking i could do with some pointers.

[matronyx]

[quote author=Xenocrates link=board=1;threadid=1252;start=0#msg11958 date=1058320387]
Thank you Matronyx for bringing a very important factor to light. Why do we believe that Windows is the most hacked OS on the planet? Is it really because Windows is has that many security loopholes or that many bugs?

The Windows family of operating systems currently sits on roughly 85% of the world's desktops. Before there was Windows, there was UNIX. Back in the early 80's, UNIX was the most hacked operating system. Was it because UNIX had that many security loopholes or that many bugs?

Do you see a trend here? Any operating system that becomes the most dominant one will be broken sooner or later by hackers. Bill Gates once said back in the early 80's that there's no such thing as a secure operating system. He said that for a reason.

If Linux were to become the dominant operating system tomorrow morning with an 85% desktop spread, Linux would eventually become the most hacked operating system. Hackers just choose the platform that has the widest spread. They will keep pounding it until they break it. If man made it, man can break it.

Matronyx's solution to being hacked is perhaps the best I've seen so far. You don't want to take any chances with these hackers today. After reading Ropy's post about hackers using trojans to setup porn servers, I would seriously not try to find out who's doing it. Better to take my box offline than to leave it open while going on a futile manhunt for the perpetrator. At least, I can go bughunting on my box in peace and quiet and see what he has done to it.

Wouldn't y'all agree?
[/quote]

I once held the view that the most popular OS will always be the scapegoat for problems, security related or otherwise. I however think that the reputation of the most popular OS, windows, has been a very poor one from the get-go.
No other OS has been plagued with so many problems, not even UNIX at it's worst. In fact, UNIX is the most popular system used as webserver/ftpserver. These are the most banged machines on the internet, not private machines running windows. For years UNIX has been at the top of the list.

They have remained there too, not for ease of use as IIS, but because of a better track record when it comes to performance and security. I must admit though that the latest release from M$ has been doing good. In the three months since the launch of Winwoes Server 2003, the number of active sites running this system have increased by 300% with about 8,000 sites switching from using linux.

However, this does not mean that the number of sites running a flavor of UNIX/linux has fallen. The figure is steadily rising every day. The May 2003 web server survey from netcraft shows that the percentage of sites running Apache standed at 62.53% compared to M$ 27.17
June's figures: Apache 63.16% to M$ 26.85%.

Let us just say that M$ still has a lot of catching up to do 8)

[wheelman]

And if you look at my signature that I've been usign for a long time now you'll see the only way to protect yourself

[deakie]

@ matro.....ble ble ble....just gimme di addy an lets se if i can make di big dawg bark n howl ina di gate.... :P
praaaak praaaaak praaaak

[matronyx]

[quote author=deakie link=board=1;threadid=1252;start=15#msg12035 date=1058378047]
@ matro.....ble ble ble....just gimme di addy an lets se if i can make di big dawg bark n howl ina di gate.... :P
praaaak praaaaak praaaak
[/quote]

For one, you would have to hack our main site in the states before getting to here. That means getting past the firewall we have set that guards military secrets, NASA projects, healthcare info, credit card info from prying eyes. Lets say you found a way to do what every hacker on the web is trying and for some strange reason you still want to see what lowly lil matronyx has on his linux box....
then you would have to go through our firewall here. You got through that? Then you have to crack my SSH port, since i have disabled every other open port on my linux box including telnet and ftp.
Still wanna try? You can start at cracking www.acs-inc.com