[Gllug] Story about the Lupper worm and linux

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 11 15:58:05 UTC 2005


On Fri, 11 November, 2005 3:34 pm, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:32:19PM -0000, paul at thinksolution.net wrote:
>> I thought you folks might like this information
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5938475.html?tag=nl.e589
>
> So running crap, insecure, buggy code on your webserver doesn't leave
> it impervious to attack? Shit, hold the front page.
>
> Anybody who gets infected by this, frankly, has it coming to them.
>
Ah, I was looking at my server log last night and wondering where all
these things were coming from! Though I'm not running any vulnerable code
it annoys me that I'll face years of this junk turning up the log (as with
Code Red) because no matter how often you tell some people they won't fix
their boxes.

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