Alan, alan c wrote: > Ubuntu Servers Hacked > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1341224 > > > If this is true it is pretty sad. It will take some time for > confidence to be regained. What a gift (or a result?) for the opposition!
Sad indeed, but I'd like to know how these machines were compromised. In my experience, Linux/Unix machines are usually compromised because a user name/password has been discovered by a hacker (sorry, cracker!). And quite often, the discovery has been through a compromised Windows box! So if this was a user name compromise, then we can put that down to operational error, or security flaws in some other system. If it was an exploit of a vulnerability in Ubuntu, then that, to me, is a little more worrying. If so it shows the importance of keeping up to date with security patches. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
