Linked by Kristofer Jarl on Fri 23rd Jul 2004 05:38 UTC
The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first. 
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You are so utterly clueless it's cracking me up. Are you for real?
I dont know if you are into hacking or worked as a Security Administrator or not, let me tell you something. For that things to work Attacker needs to exploit the system( as you probably read in the article , using universal exploit). It is right that Windows has vulnerable to that attack but It is quite normal. It is so stupid for you to come with something like this.
I don't know if YOU know THIS but the sasser worm (along with many others) is self-propogating, which means that it doesn't need human intervention to spread. The worm automatically scans ip addresses with open ports and then proceeds to copy itself to a vulnerable host where it repeats the process. The attacker needs to do nothing but release the worm. The worm has a trojan that will allow the attacker to take control of the system. This can easily happen when updating Windows and has happened in the past. People still get infected with worms from two years ago. This is nothing new. I'm not even pretending this is some kind of revelation. It's well known.
There are many exploits for both Linux and Windows and you probably dont know it by now that somebody who knows how to use an exploit can gain access your Linux box, and you never even know(assuming your Linux box is not secured agains that exploit).
Try it. I'm sure I can do a pretty good job foiling that plot considering:
Hardware Firewall
SELinux
Logging
Tripwire...to name a few...
Yeah, no software is perfect, but I have my defenses.