French, Canadian Hackers Use Kentucky State Computers To Store Files
from the will-the-RIAA-subpoena-them? dept
Just because your IP address is sharing files, it doesn't mean that you are sharing files. The state government of Kentucky has just discovered that for the past few months, some hackers have been using state computers to store movies and video games (and a medical textbook!?!). They don't say how they discovered this, but it would be amusing if they only discovered it after receiving an RIAA subpoena.
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Of course, somebody exploited it, and turned it into a nice little server for themselves. I found out Monday morning when people were getting DNS errors. I called my ISP, and they told me that I was using all the bandwidth of my T1. Uh-oh! Somebody had uploaded 2 gigs worth of games and what not, and posted the server's IP address either on IRC or Usenet.
I moved the server to another IP address, turned off FTP, and waited 4 hours for people to finally realize that the server was gone for good.
I wasn't real happy then. But my boss explained to his boss that we got overwhelmed with traffic (not saying why), and more importantly, DNS was finally working for the upper management to do their websurfing, even if it still wasn't up to speed. Which was the real important issue.
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