Senator Lieberman's Linux Site Hacked. Why is this being ignored by the Linux community 2016

Paris Marriot

DDOS is always interesting. Thousands of sites slammnig on a site with big huge mbuttive requests designed to make the entire system run out of memory or disk. Do it hard enough and it could get exciting. Windows certainly does no better against such an onslaught, and Solaris-AIX-HPUX last a bit longer because they typically have 64 gig of physical memory and 256 gig of SWAP space (just in case it's needed). A bit harder to run it dry.

I would be interested in hearing more of the details of the attack.

It could be very interesting to discover that they had auditing turned on, captured the information required to trace back to the perpetrators, and then actually convict someone with felony computer trespbutting, and possibly even treason (using violence and-or destruction of property for the purpose of overthrowing the government-altering the natural outcome of an election or primary).

Under the patriot act, every computer connecting in could be audited and the owner subjected to some very unpleasant interrogation.

Now that the other guy has won, will he continue to spend $millions of his own funds to defeat the republican challenger, or will he just "roll over and play dead", letting the Republican candidate fill the seat because he blew his wad on the primary.

The challenger was well funded. Where did that money come from? How many PACs and "corporate PSAs" were used.

If the system was kept in it's default configuration, there should be a nice little trail of bread crumbs back to the perpetrator(s).

Possibly. If so, an audit of the SU log, file modification and access times, and acct information should be able to identify this as well.

Actually, it would be national headline news if it WAS Linux' fault. Linux servers don't get successfully attacked very often, and if this site really was corrupted by an outsider hacker using a Windows machine, then it really would be fun and important to find out what went wrong and make sure it never happens again.

Do you have the core dump? Which version of Linux was it running? Was Core Dump enabled? Were the standard features enabled? Was there any change in configuraton from the defaults?

What were the reports in the syslogs, last, and file times?

What were the reports in the TCP logs?

Lets' find out what happened. We have the source code to the kernel. Leiberman's computer really should be turned over to the FBI to find out exactly what happened. After all, if this tactic worked in a primary, this means that a hacker-person could impact the outcome of a congressional election, even a presidential election.