[techtalk] Linux security suggestions

Magni Onsoien magnio at pvv.ntnu.no
Mon May 14 09:21:54 EST 2001


Brian Sweeney:
> "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

One of the sysadmins at my *old* job left his laptop with Windows 2000
running in the office last Friday. When he came back on Saturday his IIS
webserver was defaced... :)


Magni :)
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