Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 23:02 UTC
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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2007-02-17
Whoooooooooo boy, that's a biggie. I don't think so.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22homeland+security%2...
4 million hits.
... let alone the admission from Microsoft itself a few weeks ago that Windows Update has a backdoor into Windows ...
Edited 2007-10-08 05:40