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Red Hat Linux: A Newbie's Experience With Hacking and Threats

Sep 26, 2000 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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Last March, I wrote about the experience of being hacked. Your correspondent, still a Linux newbie after months of effort, discovered that his home-built Red Hat Linux machine had been commandeered and turned into an IRC chatbot by someone named "bonez".. . . Last March, I wrote about the experience of being hacked. Your correspondent, still a Linux newbie after months of effort, discovered that his home-built Red Hat Linux machine had been commandeered and turned into an IRC chatbot by someone named "bonez".

To put it plainly, "bonez" nailed me. And it took me two days to notice. My friend Mark Anderson, a Unix guru, told me how to proceed. "Format your hard drive to get rid of him. He just uses you to bounce an IRC connection. You don't have enough bandwidth or disk to be attractive to steal, and you aren't famous enough to be defaced."

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