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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RE[3]: Microsoft-sponsored?
by wakeupneo on Mon 8th Oct 2007 04:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Microsoft-sponsored?"
wakeupneo
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2005-07-06

"...really great, gotta download an update of MSTRUTH.EXE soon!"

Just make sure you get the latest version as it changes regularly...

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RE[4]: Microsoft-sponsored?
by Doc Pain on Mon 8th Oct 2007 04:50 in reply to "RE[3]: Microsoft-sponsored?"
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2006-10-08

"Just make sure you get the latest version as it changes regularly..."

There were rumours that claimed the MSTRUTH.EXE would come with a built-in self-updating update using the 1984's "room 101 algorithm" for three, four and / or five fingers. :-)

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