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Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli writes via BetaNews: Would you be surprised if I told you that threat methods for Linux increased an astonishing 300 percent in 2016, while Microsoft's operating systems saw a decrease? Well, according to a new report, that is true. Does this mean Linux is unsafe? No way, Jose! There are some important takeaways here. Microsoft's Windows operating systems are still the most targeted platforms despite the year over year decline -- far beyond Linux. Also, just because there is an increase in malware attack methods doesn't necessarily mean that more systems will be infected. Let us not forget that it is easier to find a vulnerability with open source too; Microsoft largely uses closed source code. "At the end of November, criminals with other variants of the same Linux malware unleashed devastating attacks against DSL routers of Telekom customers. 900,000 devices were taken down. In October, the Mirai code appeared freely available on the Internet. Since then, the AV-TEST systems have been investigating an increasing number of samples with spikes at the end of October, November and beginning of December," says AV Test of the Mirai malware. "Other Linux malware, such as the Tsunami backdoor, has been causing trouble for several years now and can be easily modified for attacks against IoT devices. The detection systems of AV-TEST first detected the Tsunami malicious code in the year 2003. Although, at that time, practically no IoT devices existed, the Linux backdoor already offered attack functions which even today would be suitable for virtually unprotected attacks on routers: In this manner, Tsunami can download additional malicious code onto infected devices and thus make devices remote controllable for criminals. But the old malware can also be used for DDoS attacks. The Darlloz worm, known since 2013, as well as many other Linux and Unix malware programs, have similar attack patterns which AV-TEST has been detecting and analyzing for years."
didn't take no guff
water ought to be clean and free
so he fought the fight and he set things right
with his openBSD
slashdot is not as safe as you think!!
slashdot: A failed experiment.
Android made linux market share skyrocket. With tablets and phones, Windows marketshare is simply down from a decade down.
Of course is it really the fault of the operating system when the PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE is hacked and contaminated distros have to be downloaded for it to work?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Baby Timmy grew 300% but Uncle Bob shrunk 5%. Who is bigger?
because nobody uses it.
This isn't a "Linux problem," it's a "proprietary vendors using Linux and not passing on patches in a timely manner because money problem."
Linux is exactly as safe as I think it is, though. That's why I'm careful to lock it down just as I would any other system.
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
Thats not linux, thats a company using free code for their commercial products. Linux without systemd is very secure thanks.
The DSL router issue was /that/ distro, not linux as a whole. That's like lumping Adobe Flash issues in with WinXP issues.
At least I can see the holes in swiss cheese. Unlike the MSFT "processed" cheese-like product.
isn't as Slashdot as you think.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Thank you IoT vendors who don't maintain their devices for creating a breeding ground of consumer-grade security holes. Let us all pray that these widgets aren't internet facing in some way and that the consumer grade routers are sufficient at keeping external attack vectors to a minimum. There isn't much we can do for consumers who like to click on internet candy to infect themselves.
I don't know how much swiss cheese Linux is, but I do know that as things like routers get more and more powerful, the desire to attack them will grow and grow.
Back before Win3.1+Winsock and Win95, there were almost weekly CERT advisories about unix-based exploits, but as Windows grew to dominate on the internet (at least by users) it switched to almost weekly CERT advisories about windows-based exploits.
It isnt that any of these things is secure. My money would be on OpenBSD being the most secure, but thats based on data collected in a world where hardly anybody would waste their time attacking BSD (even Apples BSD derivative gets more attention.)
I hope there is a return to ROM rather than FLASH/EEPROM for devices like home routers... but... I also hope the Democrat party disappears the way the Whigs did. Hope doesnt always translate into reality, but on both these issues there might be a chance.
"His name was James Damore."
Stupidest story ever.
that a particular brand of car can be stolen easily if you leave them parked on the street with the door open and the keys in the ignition.
because that's what router and IoT etc manufacturers did with default passwords and backdoors and generally undermining security for the sake of convenience (mostly their own convenience, not their customers')
I also hope the Democrat party disappears the way the Whigs did
So you'd rather have a one-party 'system', essentially an authoritarian dictatorship? Why not get rid of the Presidency and just have a Dictator? Get rid of all those pesky 'checks and balances' in our system, make the so-called 'judicial branch' suck the Dictators dick or get executed, and tear up those pesky old pieces of paper called the 'declaration of independence' and the 'constitution' and the 'amendments' and just turn this place into Russia or Syria or North Korea? Or how about we hunt your sorry ass down and SHOOT YOU IN THE HEAD, you faggot? STFU and GTFO.
Nobody will ever hack CP/M
Nobody will ever hack MS-DOS
Nobody will ever hack Windows
Nobody will ever hack Macintosh OS (iOS)
Nobody will ever hack.
Security is not the same as obscurity.
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What is the percentage of security problems that systemd bugs (or are those 'features'?) are responsible for?
You can't handle the truth.
Linux, unlike Windows and Apple's iOS, *can* be made much more secure with a little bit of effort.
How? By not using monolithic kernels that support every device in creation, and stripping the kernel down to what is installed on the system -- especially with things like IOT devices. If it isn't installed, it doesn't need patched, it can't break, and it can't be exploited.
Ditto for added software and apps. Take a look at many of the Linux-based router firmwares out there, both sold by commercial vendors and FOSS projects, and you'll see attempts to compete with high-end Cisco feature sets for home or small business use.
Having that available is great! However, turning all of that on by default, and user thinking they should get something not because it suits their needs but because it supports 10,000 features, gets you a complex, insecure mess.
With Microsoft and Apple you can't remove many of those features. The company controls it and, Enterprise customer with a decade experience or not, you will damn well have Telemetry and like it! And dozens of other "features" that you'll never use, don't want, and just are waiting to get exploited.
Linux gives you the ability to shape much of your own system, including making it much more secure than a run-of-the-mill device. Whether or not you take the time and effort to do that is up to you.
I've seen way to many Linux-based routers and gadgets that are exposed to a network and still have default admin passwords to blame "Linux" for security headaches.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
They have no idea what I think.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Between Drepper & Pottering, I didn't think it was safe in the first place.
He said "like the whigs did". The Democratic-Republicans opposed the Whigs. If the Democrats fell apart like that, the two parties would be one based on the more popular parts of Republicans and Democrats combined, and another based on the core of the Republicans.
Nothing about that makes a one party system. Our election system guarantees two parties, by game theory. Not one, not three.
Almost all the major infections, back-doors and security problems are the result of the userland, improper implementation of the kernel, bad firmwares, lack of security knowledge, improper development, sloppy implementation and etc... etc... etc..
To say Linux is more insecure then Windows, means that the kernel, as released by Linus, and nothing else, is insecure. Well some security issues are discovered residing in the kernel, almost all other attacks and vectors have nothing to do with the base release kernel.
Please compare apples to apples...
>"At the end of November, criminals with other variants of the same Linux malware unleashed devastating attacks against DSL routers of Telekom customers. 900,000 devices were "
How many routers run MS-Windows?
> "Other Linux malware, such as the Tsunami backdoor, has been causing trouble for several years now and can be easily modified for attacks against IoT devices."
How many IOT devices run MS-Windows?
Routers and IOT devices are notorious about having crappy firmware with Linuxes that are hacked up and rarely (or sometimes never) updated. Comparing those to desktops and servers is much less a function of the security of Linux and more about the lack of maintenance and updates with the unusual role of the devices.
Sure, *ALL* operating systems have security risks and vulnerabilities. Anyone that thinks Linux (or any OS) is impervious to malware and safe needs to have their head examined. But the sensationalistic article title isn't really comparing machines of the same class, so it doesn't do the topic much justice.
Unless I've already announced what I think, having a headline that ends with "as you think" is kind of presumptuous, don't you think?
"...unleashed devastating attacks against DSL routers of Telekom customers. 900,000 devices were taken down."
Linux. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's a absolute joke to lump in devices that most people who who actually use Linux would define as one fucking step above the Internet of Shitty Things from a security perspective.
SystemD?
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
Alpha coders modify the source code of their OS.
Linux is exactly as safe as I think it is.
Let us not forget that it is easier to find a vulnerability with open source too; Microsoft largely uses closed source code.
Code visibility is only a SMALL part of finding a problem and fixing it. Understanding the code base and coding in general, as well as domain knowledge is a much bigger part. That's why "more eyes" doesn't make something better.
Going from 1 threat to 3 is a 300% increase. Going from 1000 to 999 is a decrease. (Numbers arbitrary)
Guess which one I'd prefer?
-- Alastair
Did they forget to tag this "advertisement"? ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The "increases in security issues" are not related to Linux. They are related to third-party systems which run on top of Linux. This is in stark contrast to the never ending array of vulnerabilities that are essential parts of the Windows operating system.
Apples and Oranges.
This is a silly write up. There are three times more malware programs targeting Linux systems. That tells us nothing about the number of Linux vulnerabilities, or the number of vulnerable systems, or the general security of the system.
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(extra saucy)
Linux[Redhat[1,537]/Debian[1,120]...2,657 total]
You can't just add them up. Many, if not most, will be the same vulnerabilities.
Red Hat gets a few more because of their long life cycles: 10 years, plus a few years more if paying for extended life cycle support, compared to Debian LTS being five years plus however many months to match the next LTS release.
That means more risk of old software bugs being discovered and patched in Red Hat. Which is not a bad thing.
Some ought to try to exploit the system.
e retards.
So, first indicator for incompetence already present: Author does not even know basic terminology. Second thing is that Linux is not inherently more secure than, say, Windows, but the mind-set of application developers is better and it is far easier to secure. It is also easy to make completely insecure, but a competent person will find it far easier to have a secure Linux installation than with the competition, because Linux gives you access and allows you to do things, while with, say Windows or OSX you are pretty much at the mercy of the OS vendor.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
A router running an OS that probably hasn't been patched in years, thus containing multiple vulnerabilities long ago patched, is hardly the same thing as an OS full of holes. That's like condemning Windows because of unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows XP and Vista.
Here's a tip. Don't buy shitty routers running years' old firmware, and expect that somehow the magic update faerie is going to make the vulnerabilities go away.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"I never turn it off 30 July 2014 12:21:54 AM"
Ever heard of a command called 'uptime' ?
The amount of people who have said Windows is insecure and fail to realize that only NOW that Linux is getting increased focus because of Cloud, suprise!.. Guess what it's got just as many bugs as Windows.
Maybe they will eat some humble pie.
Within 2 mins my mouse too off by itself, F someones in my system.
Pulled the network reformat install hmm whats the latest Mint.
Not to mention many of the holes are in vendor add-on software, not in Linux itself.
There's something to be said about year's old firmware, however. For a device like a router, turning off all unnecessary services, closing everything off and then opening things as needed, and only patching security vulnerabilities... never upgrading anything unless you have to to get the security fix... is actually a good strategy. On commercial routers what you do is stay current on an old release chain.
This is because a very large proportion of bugs are introduced with new features, and you'll never be exposed to them if you never install that feature... meanwhile security on average do increase your security, believe it or not. So the most secure systems end up being the older codebases with up to date security backport patches.
Lately Linux has been dinged a lot for privilege escalation bugs. These are mostly secondary vectors that rely on another vulnerability in a service or client to get on the system in the first place. As transit devices, routers have very low surface area in these categories, if you take care to turn off the crap.
Someone had to do it.
The term "monolithic kernel" doesn't mean modules are statically linked. It means that the kernel contains the full interface to hardware in kernel space. In a microkernel architecture kernel space is used for less, device drivers, file systems etc. operate in user space.
The Linux kernel is modular and monolithic. The modular nature makes it possible to remove parts that aren't needed, but those parts still run in kernel space.
1 + 3 = 4. Gasp, that's 300% more!
1,000,000 - 1 = 999,999. Gasp, a decrease!
Fuzzy wording doesn't change the fact that you're far, far more vulnerable if you're running Windows.
You mean like this?
ITwire still faults Microsoft for not planning ahead, since in February 150 million people were still using Windows XP.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sa...
Time to talk to your doctor about increasing your meds again.
Do you honestly believe that that hundreds of thousands of lines of code in a standard Linux distribution have been properly vetted with a second pair of eyes?
Do you truly believe that custom packages, necessary for some business application are all coded with best practices?
Linux and open source is a wonderful idea. We just need the community to be more active. Where is the incentive other that "to make a difference and learn"?
Linux has jumped the shark with systemd.
Oh ... right.
A Windows system run by a competent administrator?
or
A Linux system run by an incompetent administrator?
Wait a minute, that's the same administrator!
"I never turn it off 30 July 2014 12:21:54 AM"
Ever heard of a command called 'uptime' ?
uptime -p
Linux has been attacked for years, there have been rootkits and exploits out there since the early days of slackware... Linux has had a significant presence on servers almost since its inception, and is now starting to make inroads in many other markets.
On the other hand, what people think of as "linux" in this context is a multitude of different versions of the linux kernel with various modifications and all manner of different userlands running on top. Literally anyone can build a linux-based system and pile whatever garbage software they like on top of an ancient version of the kernel.
Windows on the other hand comes from one place, in a small set of versions, and all of the vulnerabilities attributed to windows are present in this version and usually in a default configuration.
Microsoft fully control the versions of windows being released, and if a third party produces a device that bundles a windows install but has some additional vulnerable software running on top of it or a stupid default configuration (eg default passwords) that vulnerability is blamed on the device vendor and not on windows.
There are no shortage of such devices, and they routinely get compromised not only due to their own poor configuration but also because of vulnerabilities in windows itself (eg eternalblue).
When it comes to embedded devices, Linux is massively more widespread than windows, most people are likely to have more linux devices than windows and usually don't even realise it, only a subset of these devices are getting compromised because the manufacturers of those devices make stupid mistakes when building them and then fail to either provide updates, or provide a user-friendly way to apply them.
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Could we please stop referring to it as an operating system? Of cause all the Linux/GNU/etc distributions that shove every beta/alpha software into their distributions are unsafe. There is no way to secure millions of lines of new code. Look at an seasoned distro (who does not use avahi/wayland/systemd/other crap code.) and you will se a much securer OS which has actually had a DECREASE in vulnerabilities.
Technically speaking, the data is skewed by malware numbers for IoT devices. Actual Linux boxes may be quite secure if you don't strip them down to a few libraries like the OS versions that ship with IOT crap.
...a vulnerability with open source too; Microsoft largely uses closed source code."
You got a study to back this up? Because from what i can understand with many of the current methods it won't make a damn difference.
I hold the belief that most western countries (I live somewhere in Europe), the ones that want to show pride that they defend and laud democracy, are a modern variant of the police state. Perhaps most clearly when a norwegian military commander is added to some news article, and so gets to have his soap box to speak from, saying that they aren't interested in normal people, as if that made things ok, to say perform mass surveillance, and mass monitoring, which I am sure they do, as they please.
So for computer security, what a shit show. Both governments and businesses, and technologists (my impression anyway), are content living in this world of what seems to be a world of mediocrity as far as computer security goes, and the privacy needs of individuals seem to be a non existent topic. It is like the world is so to speak feeding on the insecurity of things, for money and power.
I don't trust my OS, not my browser, not my bios/uefi, not my hardware drivers, not my graphics driver, not my email software. Being driven from one terrible outlook, to the next. Terrible!
So you'd like a potentially exploitable version of the router software burned into an unpatchable ROM.
I'd agree with you if you wanted to go for user replaceable ROM. Still doesn't stop RAM resident malware. Sure, a restart would work, but that's usually only done when the wifi drops out.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Is it Microsoft's fault for making such a good product, people still want to use it 15 years after release and 2 years after support has ended? It's rare to see something so beloved come from Redmond. It's probably second only to 7 with Hotmail trailing in 3rd
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Linux is an operating system.
No, Linux is a kernel.
"such a good product"? In usability terms yes, it was great and still is. As a measure of "good", however, usability is not the only one I pay my money for. I tend to include security alongside it with the same weighting. Oh, Linux is winning now by my scoring. Surprise.
Couple this with the fact that the only reason the world is using is it in such volume is good marketing and grotesque hog-tie deals with manufacturers leaving the consumer no other choice.
Let's be careful with "good" and not devalue it, please.
Good thing that Lennyboi and his Shitstemd will unify the distros, removing the petty differences between them with one huge reinvented monolithic wheel, while at the same time refuse to fix privilege escalation bugs. 300%? Try 30000% in the next few years.
There are two kinds of company: those who know their servers have been compromised, and those who don't know.
(We used to say this in the security group at a big company in New York that almost certainly has better security than your company.)
This sort of BS mathturbatory statistics has long been used to fake problems where there are none really there at all.
Like there is zero risk you will have a trojan sitting on your computer leaking personal information. It's a certainty. It's a demanded part of the OS now. No risk there at all, only certainty.
Sound correct? Yeah, not much. Because I've not placed the nuance and detail necessary to make the correct result call.
It's shit and it has always been shit. Just like it will always be shit. It's shitty shit, and if it would be any shittier, its shit would shit its own shit. Shit.
It's not that XP is a good product, it's that it was followed by Vista, and having learned from that fiasco, people avoided Windows 7 until it was proven that it wasn't simply another Vista.
Unfortunately, just as people were starting to plan the switch to Windows 7, Microsoft started promising that Windows 9 would be much better, and people decided to wait.
Then when people saw that Windows 10 was another fiasco, and started considering Windows 7 once more, Microsoft started forcing Windows 10 upon Windows 7 users, and decided that XP was the safer choice.
Is Windows XP really less secure than any of it's successors, if you consider all the people who came home to find Windows 10 installed without their consent as malware attacks, along with all the spyware in Windows 10?
Anyone can easily reduce the attack surface of the linux instances you choose to deploy by simply
a) only compiling in the drivers/kernel features required
b) only installing just enough in userspace to do the job, and
c) running shit with least privilege
Not so easy with windows...
The fact so much cheap crap out there was pushed out by manufacturers that give zero fucks towards basically securing their provided OS is not a reflection on the kernel/OS as a whole.
Mine may be shit, but I see no reason to improve it, because at least it isn't the alternative.
2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
good lord how do i stop coming to this retarded site
and if an os gets more use , guess what.....more chances it will get exploited
the OP poster did noit say removing functionality he said removing stuff that is not part of your system
WHY do i need ever video driver locally , why every hardware why do i need all this other fluff ms gives me i never use ..lets take a gamer and you get the hint..and i'll say it there are probably about 30-40% of the ms users that would drop it in a heart beat if there favorite game was made in linux and worked great
It's much safer than Windows. 'Nuff said.
We'll stop lumping userland issues with Linux when everyone else stops lumping idiot users executing randsomware and then clicking the yes box in the UAC prompt in with Windows.
How about you go choke down some elephant cock, we all know you love it.
When you cliick on mail links, they do not run.
That by itself is why Linux has avoids the main entry point that Microsoft refuses to close.
"There is a notion by many people that Linux-based operating systems are impervious to malware and are 100 percent safe."
I'm sure many people stopped reading right there.
This is been a trend for a wile now. Mac and Linux have ranked higher then Microsoft in vulnerabilities for a few years now. But Mac and Linux don't get...
Life is not as safe as you think!! News at 11...
You really should stay off the internet when not lucid as you just make yourself look foolish. Also I thought you were off seeking treatment for your moose wang addiction.
I personally would love to see the Tea party split off, and then the moderate centrist Republicans and Democrats create a new party, and the liberal left fold into its own party. with 2 or 3 centrist parties, we might finally get to a point where we have reasonable politics again, and a big error like Trump would not happen again.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Its a turd and I keep finding bugs in it and relatively obvious ways to break it. Apparently no one writing systemd actually tests their code before checking it in.
For a device like a router, turning off all unnecessary services, closing everything off and then opening things as needed, and only patching security vulnerabilities...
Is actually the correct answer for any device. Services that you don't need, like about 80% of those on a windows box, are just additional vectors begging for an incursion. Even XP can be locked down pretty tight to about 8 services. In that mode, and not running any MS applications, you're actually relatively secure for a windows system. But MS is about everything and the kitchen sink, now enforced in Win10, along with a forced new feature acceptance schedule. That's the opposite of being able to secure your system.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Live distros with no saved sessions [or saved in my own cloud]. I dare you to compromise my machine.
Look everyone APK is off on one of his nonsensical rants again. Now for one of the following responses from him:
A. Pissing and moaning about AC posts while he posts as AC as well
B. Fantasies about being in a movie
C. Quoting people out of context
D. Spouting off about how he was featured in a late 90s windows shovelware magazine
E. Replying as other ACs to support himself
F. Spamming the same drivel multiple times
G. Reliving his "glory days" from 1995
H. Making antisemitic posts
I. Petty name calling
J. Threats of harm
K. Mindless swearing
L. Linking to previous nonsense comments of his
I believe that covers all of it, so what will APK choose this time?
anyone can find flaws to exploit.
GNU/Linux firewall
GNU/Linux has the advantage of a flexible and solid firewall. If the firewall is properly used, there is no excuse for a breach to occur.
However wifi modems and other network devices are not as user friendly as a GNU/Linux system. We realize that Linux drives many modem devices. A user controlled firewall in a modem is essential to keep bad actors from penetrating our networks.
Manufacturers need to make network devices more accessible to the user over an ASCII console interface so we can implement Linux firewalls on them. Let's constrict the backdoors in our network devices through our user controlled firewalls.
And by all means possible, let us prevent SystemD from taking over our network devices, and allowing the world in through SystemD's login.
This is not a news article, it is a propaganda piece. It is written with the angle of getting certain sequences of word to be read by the largest number of people possible.
The summary starts out using a term that I have never heard before and I work in that specific industry. In specific, what is the term "threat methods"? Each word is sensible and combined they are also deceptively sensible. They are measuring "threat methods" but do not give a definition for what they are measuring so we can determine the accuracy of the statement. They then go on to say that a Microsoft based operating system has seen a decline in these "threat methods" while Linux has seen an increase of them.
The article writer has not even defined what is being measured here. How can such claims be of "seeing an increase" or "seeing a decrease" be validated if there is no definition of what "threat methods" are?
Why are most "news" articles of the same nature? They seem like they are saying something but when investigation occurs, it all disappears like fog on a Sunday morning; however, some incredible claims are made based on this "fog".
TL;DR This is a puff piece designed to make you fearful of using Linux and supporting your decision to use a Microsoft product instead. Nothing more.
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Mod question here - was this post modded down because he asked a question? You cannot have constructive conversations without clear understandings. Questions are how you get there...
Or was it modded down because BeauHD didn't understand...?
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised by mmell
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg
I've never tried to belittle (APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon
APK is kinda right. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo
I like your host file system by Karmashock
I find your hosts file admirable by vel-ex-tech
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat
* My code's recommended & hosted by Malwarebytes' hpHosts...
APK
P.S.=> See subject: After the above it's YOU that look FOOLISH you UNIDENTIFIABLE trolling "ne'er-do-well" worm... apk
See subject: It keeps cost down per device in phone handsets/routers:Big impetus for device makers to outcompete, say, Apple OR MS. The TRUE reason it is so widely used IS this. Money talks.
APK
P.S.=> Linux's attacked on Android MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER SINGLE DEVICE it's used on (routers would be next) & it's what makes truth in my statement you replied to possible - The MORE any OS is used, the more it will be attacked (& it's attacked on Android like MAD - makes sense - pickpockets don't hunt in abandoned cities. They work crowded throughfares (bus/train stations, crowded city streets etc.). The smartphone IS that throughfare now & for a decade++ easily... apk
I id myself: "your kind" hides (BIG difference). Yes I was featured in many publications. You'll never manage it.
I don't dislike jews (have jews in my bloodline + pals of mine = jews). I dislike Khazar Pharisee FAKE JEWS & talmudic law that's shits on others (goy/gentiles) whom St. John called "the synagogue of satan" (wallace rosenthal interviews exposed that in the 1970's).
Mr. LOOPY Looper?
"There a new 'holy terror' bossman in the future. He's closing all the loops" (per the film LOOPER) - the "LORD of Hosts" (so to speak, the RAINMaker).
I've closed yours LOOPY boy - you won't use your 1 of MANY registered 'luser' FAKE ACCOUNTS (for your fake name fake life) sockpuppets to downmod me with (why? I've crushed you before, MANY times, lol).
"How long since you've DROPPED? out of sight "ne'er-do-well" loopy LOSER trolling UNIDENTIFIABLY.
APK
P.S.=> "THE PRICE OF FAME = BEING ATTACKED" - I must be 'famous' (last thing I want - media builds 'famous folks' up to DESTROY 'em)... apk
Time for you to take your own advice & your meds. After all, you're clearly projecting your issues onto me as always...
* Not only do you "hide" behind UNIDENTIFIABLE "ne'er-do-well" trolling posts (vs. using your "registered 'luser'" name in multiple fake account sockpuppets you use to downmod my posts), you have to HIDE MY POSTS that trash you easily, lol... you've blown what? 9 modpoints already to try it?? I just repost & run you DRY of those abused modpoints, easily, lmao!
APK
P.S.=> Grow up UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous trolling worm... apk
See subject: Please - Keep projecting YOUR ISSUES! You provide us all an insight into the weak mind of "your kind", lol!
APK
P.S.=> You just don't learn, do you? apk
He didn't ask a question.
MS targets declined by 13%, yet total threats still went up.
Implications are that MS targets did, in fact, go up, too, yet, not as much.
10% of 20,000,000 is a much larger number than 10% of 200,000!
Does anyone get a sense of the real affect of targeted percentages?
I know my android phone suddenly gets very sluggish lately. And I do not use it for secure personal stuff.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
There may not be a question mark at the end, but it's an obviously implied question. "I don't get it, would someone please explain it to me?"
"DSL routers of Telekom customers"
if these routers would have been running windows instead of linux there wouldn't exist the opportunity to comment about it because we would all be radioactive ash.
Looks like I missed an option:
M. Go full retard in the thread
Which looks to be what you chose.
There is no application, OS, interface, etc that is immune to tampering.
This is why we have defense in depth strategies on the enterprise side. You put layers between a potential attacker and the data he may want, and you pray that one of those layers is something he can't crack yet.
If modern Linux distros have greater known vulnerability, it only means one thing: Microsoft is finally delivering on their promise to make Windows more secure. It's certainly taken long enough.
The increase in attacks on Linux is partly the result of its adoption as the platform-of-choice for IoT devices, which makes Linux exploits more valuable due to the increased number of devices and the longevity of those devices.
Worms and botnets target mismanaged devices because they intend to use them as resources. Well-managed and audited devices will get wiped, or else the malware will be turned over to security experts and AV companies---both cases are bad for the malware operator.
Now that Linux is running on this "unmanaged" hardware, it is low-hanging fruit too---and therefore a valuable target.
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According to the latest ruleset, this post should be modded as Vorpal Flamebait +5.
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Go back and play with your VB6 for drunken lesser primates book.
You made an overly complicated overly complex program that could be implemented by anyone with basic bash or Perl abilities in a couple of hours. Many have done this and they have done better than you as they didn't make some overly complicated executable. You don't even do the hard work of creating the lists your little high school programming class level toy program aggregates and slightly transforms. You are dependent on the actual original work of others because your work is unoriginal unthinking shit. It must take a lot of effort to convince your self that this was a meaningful contribution to the world.
Are you next going to tell me about your shitty defrag program? Again something that any student who has taken an operating systems course and has knowledge of programming could also trivially do.
See subject: As always I ran you dry of your downmodpoints loopy loser - I closed your loop hahahaha, as I said I would.
* :)
(You're SO predictable & I play you like a fiddle every single time to your dismay & my satisfaction making good on my words...)
APK
P.S.=> "There's a new "holy terror' bossman in the future & he's closing ALL the loops" just like I closed yours seeing as you won't post using your registered 'lusername' (as you used it to issue, oh 10++ downmods of my posts, lol, you FAIL) - I closed the loop of your MANY fake names for your FAKE LIFE sockpuppets, lol - HOW LONG SINCE YOU DROPPED? Dropped RIGHT out of sight (like Bruce Willis near the film LOOPER's termination)... apk
How long did it take to see that Samba RCE vulnerability? Or the Bash RCE before it?
See subject: I didn't use anyone's interpreted script crap (people want GUI mostly) & answer my subject's question loopy loser.
* This further CLOSES YOUR LOOP, lol, as always...
(You sure "talk big" but when the chips are down & you can't back up your bs & I can easily, even in the opinions of our /. peers, & you CAN'T? LMAO @ U!)
APK
P.S.=> "There's a new "holy terror' bossman in the future & he's closing ALL the loops" just like I closed yours seeing as you won't post using your registered 'lusername' (as you used it to issue, oh 10++ downmods of my posts, lol, you FAIL) - I closed the loop of your MANY fake names for your FAKE LIFE sockpuppets, lol - HOW LONG SINCE YOU DROPPED? Dropped RIGHT out of sight (like Bruce Willis near the film LOOPER's termination)... apk
You and your mincy little faggot balls should go bugger off you tosser.
You bore me.
You whine like a mule about anon posts yet you can't even be stuffed to get an actual account to claim your glory.
Now piss off.
Please, just fucking stop. "See subject". Jesus fucking Christ. WE know how to read and write, you don't. "P.S=>" again, WE know how to read and write, you don't. Stop, stop, stop fucking spamming us with your nonsensical drivel. Learn what the rest of us learned in grade 2 about basic writing. I pity any of your family members. I wouldn't be able to deal with your issues.
Like I said overly complex bloatware. You don't need a GUI, it should be a fire and forget program that runs in the background at regularly scheduled times. But that it too hard for you and your little toy programs to accomplish. Be sure to include those DoEvents() calls in your VB6 code so the system still remains responsive. Even if I had an account I wouldn't waste any mods on you as I want people to see your stupidity in its full glory. Now go beat off to your VB6 for Drunken Lesser Primates book ass hole.
See subject: That's NOT what most want (gui is & HAS been for decades) but I built it in tty/dos window/charmode initially (circa 1997-2012) 1st. It IS faster since it has NO GUI overheads (messagepassing mostly).
* YOU AVOID MY QUESTION ("gosh I wonder why?" not...) - No, I know why: You truly ARE "Forrest" ala "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"
WHAT HAVE YOU PERSONALLY DONE BETTER (that /.ers like as I have)? NOTHING apparently - & when u do what I have shown already? Then talk (I have dozens of times).
APK
P.S.=> "Ride, Captain - RIDE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOKaSr3B_II/ & be a JOYRIDER per my subject above ("I get no '$' talk @ ALL" in ads/threats etc. - IF this program had a "theme song"? THIS would be it...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCorJG9mubk/ via APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/
Face facts: Internal to a corp.? Linux = sense Using Linux for FREE (no license fee) = Android's success. They run the show there...for the 'grain' YOU consume (lmao)...
* Their "raison d' etre" = profit.
(Lessening cost overheads per unit does so)
THIS IS THE SOLE TRUE REASON FOR LINUX SUCCESS. Works + cheap.
APK
P.S.=> It also MORE importantly makes sense for folks who consume that "plastic koolaid" of 'smartphones' too - DOLLARS & CENTS! Hence it's success (but also its woes in being attacked - more used = more attacked)... apk
Meh... With some work, you can secure XP well enough. Depending on your security needs, there are a variety of products, methods, and services. I've been using Linux exclusively, for years, and I still have some fond memories of XP.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I don't want to be a FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIFE like you (or reduced to stalking me by UNIDENTIFIABLE "ne'er-do-well" anonymous as you are now).
APK
P.S.=> That "registered 'luser'" stuff? It's not for me. It IS RIGHT for "those of 'your kind'" though, lol... apk
Routers and IoT devices run Linux.
Routers and IoT devices are created with intentional backdoors, security holes galore, and ancient outdated versions of Linux.
How it this a problem with Linux?
This is a problem with the (deliberately?) insecure design of routers and IoT devices.
Why?
People don't understand security and refuse to pay for it because they want everything cheap.
Companies can only create these device cheaply if development is minimized to exclude useless "features", such as security.
Companies won't create these devices with Windows because the hardware target does not support it, but moreso because of the licensing costs.
If they did create these devices with Windows, would it be Window's fault that they are designed with intentional backdoors, security holes galore, and ancient outdated versions of Windows?
No.
You asked for cheap.
Cheap means insecure.
You got what you asked for.
Here's a tip. Don't buy shitty routers running years' old firmware, and expect that somehow the magic update faerie is going to make the vulnerabilities go away.
Okay. Please list me routers on the market that get regular firmware updates [1]. So I know which ones to buy.
[1] Preferably for ten more years.
Microsoft sells PC'S and laptops without bloat ware (Signature line) and have these images available to OEM'S. It's HP who bundles the trial software in that case. Other Linux distributions have default browsers and search pages, not sure your point.
...my name isn't Fag-ioli.