[Gllug] Yet another M$ worm!

[Peter Childs]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Paul Weaver wrote:

> On Monday 22 September 2003 11:18, you wrote:
> > Don't get too complacent. Linux is just as vulnerable to this type of
> > attack.
> >
> 
> I doubt many linux users would fall for an email from Linus patching the 
> latest kernel - however I do worry about a (man in the middle?) attack on 
> debian's apt servers. I just run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade every so 
> often, if someone had cracked the servers a lot of people would get infected 
> before reading the usual sites/email lists. 
> 
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	The lack of access to ports below 1024 and to the system programs 
without the root password does kind of help! I mean if any old program 
came up whats the root password please would you give it to it?

Peter Childs


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