[techtalk] Linux security suggestions

[Mary Gardiner]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:22:48PM -0700, Brian Sweeney wrote:
> "The life expectancy of an unpatched, default installation of Red Hat 6.2
> server is three days. The last time we attempted to confirm this, the system
> was compromised in eight hours."
> -The Honeynet Project

The only time I've ever seen one put on a network had a compromise time of
under 3 days, yes.

Probably through the portmap daemon, and the t0rn rootkit was installed, and
not picked up for months. Ugh.

Mary.

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Mary Gardiner
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