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A comment on Back Orifice (1998).

Re:Back Orifice (1998) by titoasty on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:00PM (#28418041)
Wow, so much memories! BO, Nervous, BitchSlap, mIRC scripts... I also remember the famous NetBios hack at this time. Easy to do, and you felt like a real hacker! Command lines instead of GUI! That was an incredible feeling and it later brought me to Linux.. and still on Linux (ok on Ubuntu, I'm a casu now :D)
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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:20PM (#28418193)
NetBios… still out there giving gifts. We had a pen test a couple years ago and the hackers were easily able to get NetBios to use some old legacy feature to request user hashes. From there just load them into a GPU heavy cracker and 50% of our company user passwords in a few hours.

The IT company at the time had no idea they shouldn’t enable netbios unless it was actually required for something.

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by DrAwdeOccarim on Saturday September 04, 2021 @10:05PM (#28421105)
Yep, these apps definitely sparked my interest in linux as well.
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