Binary Spill Writes:
Malware was found in a screen-saver which was uploaded to the popular community artwork sharing site gnome-look.org in the .deb file format. When installed the the screen-saver would install a malicious script which has been confirmed to have been written in LongPHPCodez™, to execute DDoS attacks and update itself. Slashtardia has responded by denying the malware to be a significant threat despite this attack not being the first of it’s kind. . The community is also guiding the infected on cleansing their systems, but of course challenges the statement that LinuxIsMalwareProof™
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Re:Not more safe
by nschubach (922175)
on Wednesday December 09, @05:43PM (#30382196) Journal
The idea behind it is so that someone will put out a patch for said vulnerability without having to wait for parent company to do so…
It’s not more secure because of it’s market share, it’s more secure because anyone can fix it.
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Re:Not more safe
by nschubach (922175)
on Wednesday December 09, @05:53PM (#30382304) Journal
The Flash player isn’t open source. The Compiler is, the player is not. As I said, the idea behind open source being more secure is that you could have potentially thousands of different solutions to prevent this thing in the future. The best one is chosen and patched into the main tree. If you have the source, you can do this in a few minutes (or put in your own temporary patch) with the proper skill and be back up and more secure than someone waiting for “Patch Tuesday.” Even if a patch comes in that resolves that problem, it could have been the first solution to said problem and might have problems itself that will need to be fixed later.
It’s really the potential quantity of solutions to the problem.
I could argue with you that this vulnerability might have been fixed sooner with more market share.
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AnyoneCanFixIt™
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Slashdot = IWantToBelieve™
Linux wishes it even had the marketshare that Windows malware occupied.
If people were able to write software that became that prolific on Linux they might actually have something to talk about!
Could somebody explain me why exactly you’d need a “patch” against such kind of malware, as quite a lot of ubuntu users chanted in the UF thread?
Welcome to the world of Orwellian DoubleSpeak.
FUD is truth
Breakage is security
Dependency is flexibility
Good thing Windows’ security has never been compromised.
Hey look, it’s Hoppi trying to make an inflammatory post.
He failed at it too. ;)
We really could just link Fudtracker to a reskinned version of slashdot, with tags replaced with ™s.
God, no. Slashdot is an ungodly abomination of website design.
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