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Getting Hacked Through Your Terminal

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-new-under-the-sun dept.

hdm writes "My company recently published a paper on security issues with common terminal emulator applications. The interesting thing about these vulnerabiltiies is that many of them only require the victim to be running tail on their log files (apache, syslog, etc) for the attack to be successful. The paper (TXT) can be found here."

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  1. Re:Most exploits by kasperd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For instance, you can recover a root password in just 10-15 minutes on ANY machine.

    You shouldn't make such claims without any evidence.

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    Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?