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Linuxense Break-in Challenge Over

Posted by timothy on from the aw-they-werent dept.

hot_Karls_bad_cavern writes "As previously mentioned on Slashdot, the Linuxense Break-In Challenge has ended and some results posted, including a torrent link to the packet capture dump. The great Linux guru winner: no one. After the 96 hours, the machine was still safe and sound. Distro on the target machine: Adamantix."

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  1. In this case i believe by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the timeframe was too short to do anything high profile. In other words, the distro was more secure than it could be hacked in 96 hours. However, with servers online years, you have a much better situation from the attacker's viewpoint, even if your box is fully patched.

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    1. Re:In this case i believe by cfavader · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I fully agree.

      Apparently they expected people to whip out their magic wands of hax0ring skillz.

      Personally, I would have kept the server up until someone finally broke through (although for a lesser prize?) just out of curiosity.

  2. Pffft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone capabile of breaking that machine isn't about to announce that little bit of information to the whole world.

    Public security "tests" are useless (from a security standpoint) publicity shows.

  3. interesting choice of distribution by cfavader · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I must say I'm proud to see them distributing the packet dump via bittorrent. Every legit reason for p2p helps.

    1. Re:interesting choice of distribution by Punboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh yes. RIAA: Mr. Johnson, you say you have a legitimate use for P2P software? Johnson: Yes. I use it to distribute packet captures to help people break into computers. RIAA: ...

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  4. Forkbomb... by bcmm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, was this because it was down the whole time because of people trying to DOS it instead of taking control?

    When they gave a user account, didn't the first person to log in change the account password?
    And was it susceptable to forkbombing?

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    1. Re:Forkbomb... by RALE007 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I was just about to post the same thing from the faq. This "challenge" proves little to nil considering their server wasn't capable of handling the network traffic. There's a million analogies that come to mind, but I think a good one would be a boxing match. Their victory is tantamount to a boxer claiming to be the heavyweight championship because nobody beat them in a fight, but the reason nobody beat them is that all the potential challengers were stuck in the doorway into the arena. It doesn't prove a victory, it proves the doors need to be bigger. Bringing that thought back around to this hack challenge, all that was proved is their hardware is insufficient for any moderately high traffic load. I don't think a victory dance is in order.

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  5. I Got In!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. That was easy. That guy has no security at all. I'm going to delete his network files and terminate his internet connection right now!

    NO CARRIER

  6. I hacked it! by Lally+Singh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't report it, just b/c I thought it was too little a feat to mention. Password: Joshua.

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  7. Re:People sux0rz by BrynM · · Score: 3, Funny
    What happened to all those claims from Micro$oft that Linux is more unsafe than Windows?
    For comparisson, I just put a XP box online. Let's see how long it tak... damn. Never mind.
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  8. I posted this 2 days ago... by akjacob · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and got rejected.