Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 00:45, JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:25:04 -0400
Bryan Phinney disseminated the following:
Ahhh, right. I mean, why would a hacker bother to try to hit Linux when all
he would manage to do is compromise thousands of machines that make up the
entire Internet backbone. I mean, what would be the good in, say
compromising all the google clusters and disrupting the primary search engine
of the Internet? The other script kiddies would probably laugh you out of
the Internet cafe when talking about that compared to, oh, sending out a
brain-dead virus built from a kit, using a vulerability that was published a
year ago, that hits home users who haven't updated their software since they
bought their computer. Yeah, it must be that whole windows popularity thing,
I am sure that the comparitive difficulty in targeting Linux over windows has
absolutely nothing to do with it. Pull the other one.
ROFLMAO! Nice...that's a keeper.
The far less amusing version, dare I post it again:
http://securityfocus.com/columnists/188
Haven't we been over this more than enough in the past three years?
"Save the attachment to your drive; un-tar/un-gzip it; cd into the virus
directory; type sudo ./configure && make && make install; then run sudo
/usr/bin/virus" - sit back and watch your system fry."
On a side note, by leaving telnet and ftp and ssh ports opened, along
with not having a working and tested firewall, a system might be
breached as well - but still a tougher job to pull off than say,
downloading a virus kit from Astalavista, modifying the code, and
chucking it out on the net in through spoofed email...
Moron Sysadmin quote of the day:
"Why applying security patches? I have no security-problems.
If a hacker gets in and screw my systems, i just restore last night's
backup"
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