On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, andre wrote: > On Saturday 01 February 2003 16:00, Buchan Milne wrote: > > boxes to patch?", "Don't worry, we installed latest Mandrake and it > > migrate our dbs to postgres, we don't even have to patch, just migrate > > the rest, we're running drakpxe now to setup remote network installs". > > > > postgres needs patches to. > But you see, I don't have to patch our Linux boxen, I have someone else do it for me. He is very reliable, works late hours so I don't have to, and is never sick. His name is Daemon, Cron Daemon ;-).
And remember a default MSSQL installation runs with "System" (ie root) priveleges, so the bandwidth suck was not the critical part, but the fact that it advertises vulnerable systems. A poster on a local LUG list set up a honeypot box last Saturday morning, and 3.5 hours later caught a Russion hacker on the box, who reckoned he had "root" on 34 SQL boxes in our country. -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
