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Computer Security - Re: No more Linux security bragging: botnet discovery worry |
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10-01-2009, 11:25 PM
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Re: No more Linux security bragging: botnet discovery worry
~BD~ wrote:
> Quote:- > > "Bad guys have created a botnet of Linux Web servers. In a way, that's > even more frightening than regular botnets of compromised Windows > PCs. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask if this is the end for Linux's > claim to be more secure than Windows; or is it just a load of old > hokum?" > > http://blogs.computerworld.com/14723...covery_w orry Further quoting: "All of the boxes examined so far have run the Apache webserver on various distributions of Linux." So ... is it a Linux failure? Or an Apache problem? Apples/oranges. Reading further from the More link, others are speculating that individual shared web host accounts were being hacked by intercepting FTP passwords. And that's not a Linux problem. [I snipped your test.here group, where your post if off-topic.] -- -bts -Friends don't let friends drive Windows Beauregard T. Shagnasty |
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