8 Oct
2007
8 Oct
'07
4:53 a.m.
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 13:15 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=18738
The moral of the story is that unsecured (particularly unpatched) Linux boxes are just as bad (or worse) than Windows boxes.
I've seen a lot of people just install Linux machines and leave them running. Yes they run forever, but that doesn't make them secure. It seems like Linux is now more and more a target.
What's possibly more of interest here is *how* the linux boxen got cr4><0r3d. It could just be an SQL injection vulnerability or arbitrary shell command execution vulnerability in some PHP plugin module of some web app framework, yet Linux as a whole gets blamed. Cheers David