[96832] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Lawson)
Thu Oct 29 14:46:46 1998
From: elawson@lr.net (Ed Lawson)
To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:42:33 -0500
Reply-To: "Ed Lawson" <elawson@lr.net>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:35:11 -0700, Mike Bridge wrote:
>I've recently talked to about 10 or so administrators who were "trying out"
>Linux on their sites and had their machines broken into by hackers. All
>of them were using unpatched distributions of RedHat 5.x, and most of
>them were shocked by the experience and are wiping Linux off and
>installing NT.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but this sounds odd. These people are putting
up RH boxes for testing on the Internet in a corporate environment without a firewall or
other security on their corporate network? They are doing a stock install and not taking
any steps to select only needed services? They never have cracker attacks otherwise?
Just does not sound right.
Ed Lawson
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