1. My parents' Windows machine got infected with a very hard-to-get-rid-of
virus that turned their machine, which was no server at all, into an SMTP
machine, and used it for massive mail operations.
2. When I was a checker for Wikipedia, I could check the IP of registered
users who violated
Two interesting cases indeed, but neither matching my question: The
first one was a Windows machine and the second we don't know.
Exploiting machines as a platform for your own nasty business is
probably the most common reason to attack a personal desktop. It's also
the situation with the
On Mon, May 14, 2012, Eli Billauer wrote about Re: [Haifux] Is the risk real?
(Was: New mail icon for Thunderbird over Gnome):
Exploiting machines as a platform for your own nasty business is
probably the most common reason to attack a personal desktop. It's
also the situation with the least
Hi,
Since my not-so-updated software versions became an issue in itself
(somehow I always get that) I wondered: Leave alone the unpleasant
feeling of knowing your computer *could* be exploited, are there any
real cases of attacks against personal, non-server Linux machines? The
need to
at least in the past - the risk was real.
when i first connected my computer to the internet via ADSL, and set up
firewall rules - i was surprised to see that i get many (hundreads) of
failed network connections from around the world.
what people do, is run software that scans complete
