I was trying to re-install my ubuntu box as it has some wrong items in gnome menu due to previous language setting, but before I do that I came up with a crazy idea of making it a honeypot, and see how fast it can be hacked.
So I changed the password of root to 12345 and hooked it with internet, I mean, externally accessible. I did it in the morning before I went to office, and by the time I got home in the evening, you know it started running something funny already (pscan2). Seems it was a pretty standard to make a zombie (I believe in China it is called “catching chicken”), and once it become a zombie, it started scanning other machines on the internet.
They are using Yahoo’s Geocities to store their program, glad to see Yahoo is helping people in any mean …
Anyway, get to re-install the machine again, have to be a fresh image as I have no idea of what they have done else. Oh yea, I have to move the machine back as I need wired internet connection and keyboard and monitor.
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Finally I got pure Chinese desktop, yeah!
However, I forgot what else I installed there ๐ anyway, again install openssh server, ffmpeg, sbcl, plus some freeware (non open source) from Real/Adobe, should be enough for now.