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Ongoing Linux/Solaris Compromise Epidemic
An anonymous reader writes to point out that Stanford's Information Technology Systems and Services "has written a summary of a series of compromises that have been happening at universities, research institutions, and high performance computing centers, for the last month or more. The attackers are using known vulnerabilities in Linux and Solaris, along with compromised user accounts, to gain access and control of systems, from standalone servers to HPC clusters ... (the attacks are still ongoing)."
A good substitute for Linux and Sun boxes. My school migrated two years ago, weren't happier ever since.
Here - those guys make a kernel, kickass GUI environment (faster than GNOME and easier to use than KDE) plus some office word editors and educational stuff like encyclopedias and maps.
I'm running Windows XP!
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Change Linux root password from 1234 to something harder to guess
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Isn't that an oxymoron? Cray Canada's CTO says so. Then again, Borland's CTO said "OS X is my favorite Linux distribution.", so maybe CTOs aren't so smart about Technology after all ;)
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
From the Stanford article:
And further down...
To paraphrase a cliche without any attempt at humor:
Imagine a Beowulf cluster running John the Ripper.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
(And as for numbers and symbols making passwords less crackable--admit it, how many of you use 1337speak to make up the number/symbol quota?)
Doh, how did you know my password was 1337speak? I better change now that you've posted it on Slashdot!
PC's get compromised if security patches are not applied!
and in other news...
cheerio's get soggy in milk
Troll, Troll, go away and flame again some other day
How's the reformation coming?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I was looking at one of the Solaris vulnerabilities, and I saw "sadmind".
I thought it was some kind of nasty name for a hacking daemon - until I found out that sadmind was the "Solaris ADMIN Daemon"
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
Heh, I'm running Windows 95. I figure by now the hackers are just bored of hacking me.
Security through boredom, my new secret weapon take th^454&*%2^$^^^B
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.