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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2005-09-20
I just ran chkrootkit on my gentoo linux PC. Guess what? No problems found! Of course that could be because the home router has a built-in (and enabled!) firewall, despite having Two PCs running WindowsXP (one under the control of my clueless Son), along with the gentoo PC. My biggest problem with the home network is getting consistent AC Power out of the wall sockets.