February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 50m
English
book
Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition
by William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Aviel D. Rubin
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Chapter 16. An Evening with Berferd
Getting hacked is seldom a pleasant experience. It’s no fun to learn that undetectable portions of your host have been invaded and that the system has several new volunteer system administrators.
In our case, a solid and reliable gateway provided a reassuring backdrop for managing a hacker. Bill Cheswick, Steve Bellovin, Diana D’Angelo, and Paul Glick toyed with a volunteer. Cheswick relates the story.
Most of this chapter is a reprint of [Cheswick, 1992]. We’ve used this font to insert a bit of wisdom we learned later. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
As in all hacker stories, we look at the logs. . .
Unfriendly Acts
I first noticed our volunteer when he made a typical request through an old and deprecated route. ...
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