It is quite simple and has been done many times. A buffer overflow on a daemon process is all that is needed for a worm to get in. Once the worm is in, it is able to run its code with the same privaledges of that daemon, which may be root!
Ramen worm of about 3 years ago, exploited the WU-FTPD on RedHat 6.2 systems. And don't forget, that the first Internet worm, in 1988 was through an exploit in sendmail.
It just goes to show that not only Windows users need to get their systems fully patched. It makes little difference what OS the average users run, if it's not patched they'll still be worms around.
I think you're referring to David Blunket. A reporter managed to get a provisional driving license (photocard ID), in the name of the minister with the reporter's photo.
Isn't this true for almost all nations? Germany (Hitler), US (JFK) and even Saddam are all great speakers. It's a quality of most strong leaders that they are good speakers.
But IMO, Blair will not be one of the great speakers that will go down in History. He is no Sir Winston Churchill. He can hardly command the will of his own party, let alone the British public.
If he was "underperforming" then how could he expect his job to be safe?
If someone spends half their day reading/. instead of working, then a company has good reason not to keep them on. And this guy just sounds pissed off as a hard working indian is now doing his job and probably more.
GPS could prove quite useful in locating military bases, and other important targets accuratly for someone planning to attack them. Things that are not so obvious as the WTC was.
As for the military codes, we shall just have to rely on the competance of the US military on that point. Which of course is not that great, as first gulf war the US killed more British soldiers that the Iraqis did.
Not a chance! Does it look like France and Germany are doing what the US tell them.
But what chance has the EU got of getting Gallileo working in the next decade. Their current military project, the Eurofighter is years behind and billions over budget.
So far with the 2.4 kernels there have been 2 that were quickly superceeded after some nasty bugs were found as a result of the patch being applied.
I now wait at least a few days before applying a kernel patch. I'm not going to let something like my filesystem get trashed when all it takes is to wait a couple of days.
Nothing new with americans funding terrorism, the IRA were funded well enough with american donations.
It may seem strange, but some countries have suffered terrorism long before 9/11. And yeah, it would have been funded by drugs, protection rackets and maybe even piracy. This article really is nothing new, as stuff like this has been going on for decades, bombs and guns dont come cheap.
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Ramen worm of about 3 years ago, exploited the WU-FTPD on RedHat 6.2 systems. And don't forget, that the first Internet worm, in 1988 was through an exploit in sendmail.
It just goes to show that not only Windows users need to get their systems fully patched. It makes little difference what OS the average users run, if it's not patched they'll still be worms around.
David Blunket is blind.
But IMO, Blair will not be one of the great speakers that will go down in History. He is no Sir Winston Churchill. He can hardly command the will of his own party, let alone the British public.
If someone spends half their day reading /. instead of working, then a company has good reason not to keep them on. And this guy just sounds pissed off as a hard working indian is now doing his job and probably more.
As for the military codes, we shall just have to rely on the competance of the US military on that point. Which of course is not that great, as first gulf war the US killed more British soldiers that the Iraqis did.
But what chance has the EU got of getting Gallileo working in the next decade. Their current military project, the Eurofighter is years behind and billions over budget.
If they have advance knowledge of an attack, then they may make GPS inaccurate for just a particular area of US/Europe.
I now wait at least a few days before applying a kernel patch. I'm not going to let something like my filesystem get trashed when all it takes is to wait a couple of days.
Invade Russia, and close down all the piracy factories that are supporting terrorism.
Perhaps the US should just police the entire World. Sorry, I forgot, thats what the US government is trying to do.
It may seem strange, but some countries have suffered terrorism long before 9/11. And yeah, it would have been funded by drugs, protection rackets and maybe even piracy. This article really is nothing new, as stuff like this has been going on for decades, bombs and guns dont come cheap.