Star eBay: 'Phishers Getting Better Organised, Using Linux'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 23:02 UTC
Privacy, Security, Encryption When it comes to launching online attacks, criminals are getting more organised and branching out from the Windows operating system, says eBay's security chief. eBay recently did an in-depth analysis of its threat situation, and while the company is not releasing the results of this analysis, it did uncover a huge number of hacked, botnet computers, said Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information and security officer, speaking at a Microsoft-sponsored security symposium at Santa Clara University. "The vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected Microsoft boxes," he said.
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lemur2
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2007-02-17

And, before you jump in, Lemur2, shut up, will ya? All you do is fight to put down others, proving how much of the zealot you are, and you gain nothing for your cause, unless it's to annoy everyone else.


WTF? Is it my fault if you don't like to hear the truth?

Name one (1) instance where I have "put down others" without there first being an attack from them on what I said, and without the facts supporting my point.

As far as rootkits on Linux goes ... yes indeed, there are rootkits for Linux. That is why there exist utilities such as chkrootkit and rkhunter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit#Detecting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rkhunter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chkrootkit
http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html

Over.

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