Linux and the Giant Breach

[danibbler]

Ooo...security scare over on the Linux side:

"Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised"

"A developer's remote machine co-located on the same network was compromised, their password sniffed, and used to do some monkey business on the kernel servers"

I wonder how it was compromised???

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/73261.html

 

[WoodPeckr]

Linux Security ROCKS, compared to M$ & Apple!!!

Yep and it was corrected FAR FASTER than that 'patch' you AppleJacks are still waiting on ....

Here's where Open Source BEATS the pants off you fanbois....

'Not That Big a Deal'

"Seriously people, this is big," wrote Mensa Babe on one of several Slashdot threads on the topic. "I really mean totally freaking big. Thanks to the open source nature of the kernel it is trivial to add a rootkit and make a new tarball. If the attackers were worth their salt then they should do exactly that."

On the other hand, "this security breach is not that big a deal," countered bzipitidoo. "Yes, it is embarrassing for kernel.org, but the damage is not that great. Sure, we'd all like to prevent security breaches from ever happening in the first place, but I have always thought detection and recovery is more important than prevention. Kernel.org has that covered in spades."

Indeed, according to another Slashdot post, the kernel attackers apparently didn't even really "know what they had."

 

[Cobster]

Guess that Linux thread hit a nerve with Dan`, along with B4U`s thread (https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?352881-OS-X-Lion-passwords-can-be-changed-by-any-local-user) .
Sorry Dan, didn`t mean to upset you and your big investment. lol

 

[WoodPeckr]

LOL!

Wonder if he got his 'patch' yet?....:biggrin1: