On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:13:14PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:56:01AM -0800, Ralph Shumaker spake thusly: > > > This was MySQL on Linux machines? or on M$? > > > > On MS. It only affected MySQL running on Windows systems. > > Not true. They were looking for weak admin passowrds on MySQL databases, > and using that to inject the payload into the system tables of the MySQL > server. This would affect non-MS systems as well. However, the payload > would only work on the MS systems. > > Rule here: Use only strong passwords. >
Hmm ... by payload you mean malicious code to be executed? What would one try to get a Unix variant to execute that could cause trouble? That's a real question, not rhetorical. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
