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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Alex P. Rudnev wrote: ==>Remember, this intruders use small ISP as their service providers, not ==>huge MCI or SPRINT. Actually, the majority of these people use compromised root accounts in educational institutions, educational residence halls w/ Ethernet, enterprises w/o decent firewalls, and co-location machines. There are lists which exist of over 200-300 compromised root accounts and access capabilities from which someone can launch an attack. /cah
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