ALL SERVICES RESTORED! BITE ME HACK BOY, I BEAT YOU! CMHQ ANNEX BACK ONLINE

[Guest Madmatt]

Everything is back up!

Turns out he it seems he got through freaking port 139 which was left open by a poorly terminated internal application.

That is the Netbios over TCP/IP port which should almost ALWAYS be closed to outside traffic. I thought mine was but something opened it up and thats how he snuck in.

Damage to the server was negliglbe and total loss of data was a few hundred archived emails and a reinstall of win 98 (which I do monthly anyway it seems!)

Updates on CMHQ should resume on Monday as I need a day of rest and further testing yet.

Thank's for the support and I am sorry it took me over a day to get back up...

Madmatt

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[sniperscope]

Way to go Matt!!!!! I hope you get a chance at payback!!

sniperscope

[pathfinder]

Good news Mad-one!!!

only a day!!! sheesh takes me a week...minimum when ah trashes mah HDD....

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unca pathy will show ya the path,

if only he could find it himself!

[Guest SS Peiper]

Great news Madmatt!! Now if we can only find out who the little F**K who did this is.

SS Peiper

[Maximus]

*burp* Uh, I say there's gonna be a hangin'! *burp*

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[Tiny]

Well done Matt....

[Grognerd_Fogman]

Whack his peepee!....BAILIFF!

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Thanks for Athskin!

[PzKpfw 1]

*CHEERS*

Regards, John Waters

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"Go for the eyes Boo, go for the eyes!!".

[Scorpion]

Matt, I sent this to you in email, but I'll put it here for good measure: I suggest going for a small hardware firewall, such as a SonicWALL SOHO/10 or a Netscreen 5 (my personal favorite is the Netscreen). They'll do stateful packet inspection, NAT, and all that good stuff, plus they avoid the problem that software firewalls have (which you discovered the hard way): The underlying operating system is always at risk, no matter how good your software firewall is.

Great job in getting it back up!

-Scorp

[Guest ACTOR]

Great news Matt. I'm glad to hear things are fixed, and that we will get our daily dose of CMHQ tomorrow.

Enjoy your rest...You've obviously earned it.

[BAR]

Fantastic news Matt - good luck trackin the rat bastards down!

[Mace]

Way to go Matt, you're a real trooper.

Just stay away from those exhibits!

Mace

[stodge]

You're using Win98 for the server???

[Bastables]

Huzza!

[Guest Rommel22]

Lets hang the bastard who did this and chase down his family!!!

Better yet pound the f*ckers face into a monitor with his picture on it.

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From the Das Reich book as said by a German soldier

"when the Russians reached us, we opened fire, the first wave had no weapons.

The second wave didn't either (fire fodder). The 3rd and 4th had weapons and opened fire on us.

By this time we were low on ammo, but we drove them back."

[Oddball_E8]

NO! I know... Take away his copy of CM and never let him play the game again... ever!

not even the beta demo...

Then hell kill himself for sure

[Guest Madmatt]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by stodge:

You're using Win98 for the server???<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

No...That was my connected workstation. I had TWO systems attacked. My workstation AND my server. They are both now back up @ 100% efficiancy.

Madmatt

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[This message has been edited by Madmatt (edited 08-21-2000).]

[Gen. Sosaboski]

YAY!