Tuesday, June 28, 2005

UConn Finds Rootkit in Hacked Server

In an admirable disclosure, the University of Conneticut has announced they found a rootkit on one of their servers. The machine in question contained personal information on approximately 72,000 faculty and students. Though UConn believes the data was not accessed, they have chosen the responsible course of notifying all involved.

The machine was apparently compromised nearly two years ago in an automated attack and UConn has no evidence the rootkit installed then has been used. Never the less, they've chosen to take the safe course and notify all concerned there is a risk, however small, their data was stolen.

The eWeek.com story linked to above has explanations of what exactly a rootkit is and links to various detection and removal tools, as well. It's worth a read.

Jack

By the bye; I applaud your choice of template, Gail. I like the way the site looks even better now.

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