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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Three questions for you:
1) Why do you love it? Security issues such as Phishing affect everyone. I don't use Windows at home, and I'm not a big MS fan, but I'm not happy when I see Windows boxen being turned into phishing or spamming bots. That attitude seems very immature to me.
2) Who is being complacent, here? Who are these Linux users you're talking about so knowingly? If you're going to make such blanket allegations, shouldn't you learn more about the issue? Specifically, there's *no* indication from the article that Linux workstations are being used in botnets. To point fingers at Linux users (a term that pertains almost exclusively to Linux enthusiasts who have installed it at home, or those that use it on their workstations) seems erroneous, to say the least.
3) When have Linux users ever accused Mac users of complacence?
Edited 2007-10-08 15:44
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2005-07-06
This is either utter stupidity, or FUD.
I vote for FUD.
Slow newsday, eh, Thom?
It's becoming a daily routine: have a peek at OSNews, discover some silly/FUDdy/flamy article, skip directly to something else (usually Gnome Files). Which is what I'm going to as soon as I've posted this comment. Sad.
Rehdon