In a post I made a few months ago: http://baselogic.com/blog/archives/252 I talked about an issue with a RootKit that I had. Well, the truth is, that was just a symptom to an issue. The reality was, I was hacked pretty bad, and really forced to completely start fresh with a complete OS reload, and getting [...]

Yesterday, I was invaded by a RootKit. It seems there where some stealth application added to my /tmp directory, and seems to be stealing bandwidth from my server. I was given this URL as to a fix to secure my /tmp directory, and I am still trying to get through this tutorial: http://sysadmingear.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-secure-tmp-and-devshm-partition.html I wanted [...]