On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, King Beowulf wrote:
The media hype this is hysterical...because RUSSIA!
Ed, I wondered if there was less to the article than the headline proposed.
There have been numerous toolkits over the years with similar
Yeah. Quite a few years ago a friend who switched to linux but didn't keep up with security fixes got rooted. Wasn't a fun time cleaning and restoring his system.
From what I can tell, it is unlikely for this to be an issue without local root privileges since is it MALWARE and not an EXPLOIT:
I've always wondered about this.
Thus, the same rules apply to keeping this off your systems and servers as have for decades: don't click random links, don't download random executable files, etc.
Certainly rational. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
