panix.com hijacked

Sun Jan 16 07:08:24 UTC 2005

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:32:46 EST, Henry Yen said:
>
> > from panix shell hosts motd:
> >
> > . panix.net usable as panix.com (marcotte) Sat Jan 15 10:44:57 2005
>
> So let's see.. the users will see this when they log into shell.panix.net
> (since shell.panix.com is borked).. Somehow, that doesn't seem to help much..
>

and the hijackers could be, potentially, running a box pretending to be
shell.panix.com, gathering userids and passwds :(