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Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.security
Subject	Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection
Date	2013-02-23 10:04 -0700
Message-ID	<CD4E4492.157E6%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References	<kg7m30$6su$1@dont-email.me> <kg85us$t04$1@dont-email.me> <m9rlv9-rrv.ln1@sky.matrix>

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On 2/22/13 8:57 PM, in article m9rlv9-rrv.ln1@sky.matrix, "Homer"
<usenet@slated.org> wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee that Lusotec spake thusly:
>> 
>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> 
>>>    https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SSHD+rootkit+in+the+wild/15229
>>> 
>>>    SSHD rootkit in the wild
>>>    Published: 2013-02-21,
>>>    Last Updated: 2013-02-22 09:23:59 UTC
>>> 
>>>    There are a lot of discussions at the moment about a SSHD rootkit
>>>    hitting mainly RPM based Linux distributions.
>>>    Thanks to our reader unSpawn, we received a bunch of samples of the
>>>    rootkit. The rootkit is actually a trojanized library that links with
>>>    SSHD and does *a lot* of nasty things to the system.
>> 
>> Here are some more interesting information on that.
>> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797
> 
> From the available evidence it seems this security breach was cause by a
> proprietary application called CPanel, a notoriously insecure Web
> interface for configuring servers.
> 
> Yet another good reason to choose Free Software.

And yet you choose G+ which is a proprietary solution.

So funny!


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SSHD rootkit heads up Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-02-22 06:51 -0500
  Re: SSHD rootkit heads up chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-22 09:29 -0600
  Re: SSHD rootkit heads up Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2013-02-22 16:22 +0000
    Re: SSHD rootkit heads up "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-02-22 19:27 +0100
      Re: SSHD rootkit heads up JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-02-22 13:50 -0600
        Re: SSHD rootkit heads up DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-02-22 15:11 -0500
        Re: SSHD rootkit heads up Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-02-22 21:11 -0700
      Re: SSHD rootkit heads up RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 16:07 -0800
    Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2013-02-23 03:57 +0000
      Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2013-02-23 06:46 +0000
        Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-02-23 10:03 -0700
          Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 10:44 +0000
        No conclusive evidence as to what causes rootkit injection "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-02-23 18:05 -0500
          Re: No conclusive evidence as to what causes rootkit injection TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 10:26 +0000
            Re: No conclusive evidence as to what causes rootkit injection "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-02-24 08:29 -0500
      Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-02-23 10:04 -0700
        Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-02-23 22:39 +0100
          Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-02-23 15:25 -0700
            Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-02-24 11:34 +0100
              Re: Proprietary software vulnerability causes rootkit injection fuyang <cei@mail.huafeng.cma.gov.cn> - 2013-02-24 14:00 +0100
                Re: Linux vulnerability causes rootkit injection "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-02-24 16:42 +0100
                Re: Linux vulnerability causes rootkit injection Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 16:48 +0100
                Re: Linux vulnerability causes rootkit injection "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-02-24 10:55 -0500
                Re: Linux vulnerability causes rootkit injection GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-02-24 09:34 -0700
  Re: SSHD rootkit heads up TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 17:56 +0000
  Re: SSHD rootkit heads up owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-02-22 19:51 +0000

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