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Red Hat to Release Enhanced-Security Linux

Posted by timothy on from the compound-modifier dept.

Klatoo55 writes "According to an article by Techweb, Red Hat will release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which includes support for Security-Enhanced Linux, in 2005. Red Hat has been running this system with a published IP address asking for hackers to try to break the security. The last version was defeated within 45 seconds, but this new version (apparently to be the policy for the next Fedora) has yet to be cracked."

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  1. Invulnerable to MyDoom type virii? by Raster+Burn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The article implies that SE Linux would be more secure that Windows, especially in light of the MyDoom virus. But doesn't the MyDoom virus depend on a dope sysadmin clicking on a binary attachment to spread?

    So how does SE Linux protect systems against trojans?

  2. Re:Windows Beats Linux! by hendridm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not sure if you're joking or serious, but during the Code Red fiasco I put a Windows machine with IIS online on my cable modem. Thanks to port 80 being forwarded to that machine on my firewall, my computer was infected after I installed Windows in the time it took me to find and install the service pack! From then on, I made sure to remove port forwards before installing updates on newly installed machines :)

    I guess it's no surprise, given the amount of Code Red traffic there was at the time, but I just didn't think of it at the time since I had planned on installing all the updates after reloading.