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Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@TREARN>
Mon, 18 Sep 89 10:03:56 TUR
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I would like to transfer a complaint that has been passed to me from
TREARN's system programmers:
 
"The sites which have potentially dangerous programs in their filelists,
programs that can change the memory, that allow users to bypass CP
protections, should make these programs available only to NADs, or
other limited community that can be trusted.
 
With the help of such programs, (like SUPERSET from UAFSYSB, and others)
our system directory was hacked this weekend: MAINT user was deleted,
SEVERAL high-priority VM's have been duplicated (so that we ended up
with two or more of the same VM name running at the same time)
and notification that the directory was updated did not reach the operator
console.
 
Naturally we changed all passwords, but this is not a solution. If you
are aware of other such programs, please notify us so that a search can
be conducted on the disks for this program."
 
I think this encompasses the whole problem, as described to me.
Regards, -turgut
 

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