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- Attension all PCboard sysops! Be ware of any PPEs written by a user
- going by the handle of Ram Drive. Ram Drive is responcibile for
- using a backdoor which he wrote in one of the PPEs he sold me.
- Ram Drive proceeded to give himself sysop access, as well as
- multiple other accounts which he used as backups. He didn't
- stop there. He later called back and zipped up my entire BBS
- as well as my terminal phonebook(s) and user lists. Then
- systimatically deleted one directory after another (this even
- includes my DOS dir). Because I was running under OS/2 the system
- was stable and did not crash.
-
- Reasons Ram Drive is suspected:
-
- 1] Motive - I modded the PPE which I "**BOUGHT**" from Ram Drive. This
- would have made Ram Drive mad enough to attempt to take down the board.
-
- 2] I got in a big argumenent w/ Ram Drive a few months back over some
- source code he would not distribute to me. I ended the conversation by
- telling him i would HEX the PPEs if i must. (I was only threatening.
- I never did.) This pissed him off.
-
- 3] Since Ram Drive sells this PPE, only three others have it who are
- ME, Ram Drive, and a local sysop. The local sysop is not suspected
- because the hacker connects at 24000 as the sysop only has a 14.4.
- Ram Drive would be the only one to know of the backdoor in the PPE
- as he was the one who wrote it. Ram Drive connects at 24000 as well.
-
- 4] The Hacker would need to know a lot about PCB and Doorway in order
- pull this off. Since Ram Drive is a Co on a PCB and he ran his
- own PCB he would have the necessary knowledge to pull this off.
-
- 5] Any 5th Dimension Software PPE should be immediately deleted as complex
- backdoors were found in a number of them. Obviously they were placed
- there as means of destruction.
-
- 6] Even *IF* the hacker is not Ram Drive (very doubtful) he is still
- responsible as he put the backdoor in the PPE in the first place.
-
- 7] When in Doorway Ram Drive raised other accounts to sysop level
- as a backup. This way he could use them in case I caught on.
- He raised the following accounts from normal user "75" to sysop level
- "110" - Anaconda, Battleaxe, and Doomsday (as well as his own account).
-
- Here are the actual logs and user list:
- *******************************************************
- 07-08-94 (11:16) (1) DOOMSDAY (24000E) (G) KRONICK - NO
- PCBoard Modded Is Now Selected.
- Modem: CONNECT 24000/ARQ
- Caller Number: 4,184
- Caller Security: 75
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.328
- IBM-Elite (1) Conference Abandoned
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.328
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.413 <---Attempted to access Doorway
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.326
- (C:\PCB\CNFN\IBM\ONELINEF) is missing!
- (C:\PCB\CNFN\IBM\ONELINEF) is missing!
- DOOMSDAY IS RUNNING RAD-STATS
- Operator Paged at 11:18
- Reason for paging: (hack?)
- Error: C:\PCB\PPL\CHATBOX\NO.TXT (File not found)
- No one is available right now for a chat.
- (D:\PCB\GEN\BLT1.) is missing!
- CNAV v3.10 [(11:19) Active View]
- CNAV v3.10 [(11:19) Active View]
- DOOMSDAY IS RUNNING RAD-STATS
- Minutes Used: 4
- 07-08-94 (11:20) (1) DOOMSDAY Off Normally
- *******************************************************
- 07-08-94 (11:21) (1) BATTLEAXE (24000E) (G)
- PCBoard Modded Is Now Selected.
- Modem: CONNECT 24000/ARQ
- Caller Number: 4,185
- Caller Security: 75
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.328
- BATTLEAXE IS RUNNING RAD-STATS
- Minutes Used: 1
- 07-08-94 (11:22) (1) BATTLEAXE Off Normally
- *******************************************************
- 07-08-94 (11:29) (1) ANACONDA (24000E) (G)
- PCBoard Modded Is Now Selected.
- Modem: CONNECT 24000/ARQ
- Caller Number: 4,186
- Caller Security: 76
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.328
- ANACONDA IS RUNNING RAD-STATS
- Minutes Used: 0
- 07-08-94 (11:29) (1) ANACONDA Off Normally
- *******************************************************
- 07-08-94 (11:31) (1) RAM DRIVE (24000E) (G)
- PCBoard Modded Is Now Selected.
- Modem: CONNECT 24000/ARQ
- Caller Number: 4,187
- Caller Security: 75
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.328
- RAM DRIVE IS RUNNING RAD-STATS
- CSSC v2.30 [Opened: 11:31] <---- This is where
- CSSC v2.30 [Closed: 11:32] I broke in and chated
- CSSC v2.30 [Opened: 11:34] him twice.
- CSSC v2.30 [Closed: 11:35]
- RAM DRIVE IS RUNNING RAD-STATS
- %\pcb\text\pcbt.413 <-----Attempted to access Doorway Again!!!
- Minutes Used: 4
- 07-08-94 (11:35) (1) RAM DRIVE Off Normally
-
- I changed all 110 accounts back to normal security before he had a
- chance to use them. As you can see he procedes to use all 3 of the
- accounts he changed to sysop security before finally using his own
- account. While using his own account I broke in and chated him
- pretending to not know what was going on, I asked him a few questions
- that only Ram Drive would know the answer and confirmed it was
- actually Ram Drive.
-
- I modded Rad Stats (a view stats PPE) as well as his PPEs to let me know
- when: A- it was run B- the user attempted to gain access to the backdoor.
- It simply added a hack line to his user comment. Nailed Doomsday -> Ram Drive
- red handed. As you can see by the logs it is obvious this is the same user.
-
-
- As you can see Ram Drive used the stats program to view his security
- level each time he called. He did this to see if he is at sysop level
- so he can again attempt to delete the board. On the first and last attempt
- (Doomsday and Ram Drive) his account comment was changed to "I am a hacker
- - Running Backdoor in xxxxxx.ppe"
- I modded the ppe and took out the backdoor and replaced it w/ a command
- to add the above hack line to all accounts that attemt to use the backdoor.
-
- Ram Drive and his software is VERY dangerous to all sysops and users alike.
- He should be blacklisted nationwide and his software deleted.
-
- -Razor / Twilight Time
- [The Razor's Edge]
-
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