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Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line!

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On 11/11/2015 10:24 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:

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> Brian Krebs of Krebs On Security had
> something on ransomware and Linux, just not labeled Ransm-C or
> anything:
> 
> http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/ransomware-now-gunning-for-your-web-sites/
> 
> IF I'm understanding correctly, he appears to have updated that
> article with a *potential* way to beat it via a *potential*
> vulnerability.... at least until the perpetrators upgrade their own
> tactics, anyway.
> 
> I like what Brian's been doing. I can cognitively understand a LOT of
> what he writes about. He's caught SlashDot's eye a time or two, too.
> 
> Adding another keyword here, Linux.Decoder.1, which Brian says was a
> name dubbed by "Russian antivirus and security firm Dr.Web". It may or
> may not be the same as the other, but sounds like it works
> similar'ISH.
> 
> Next stop is to pop over to a group called BlindWebbers. I'd seen
> Brian's email subject line earlier and thought instantly of them, just
> didn't get around to opening it then. The guy in Brian's article makes
> it sound like it's a little time consuming and still has incidental
> glitches afterwards.
> 
> That's presumably coming from someone with no visual disabilities. The
> difficulty level of getting one's website back would understandably
> rise relative to one's ability or lack thereof to actually see what's
> going on within the file hierarchy..... AND apparently each single
> file that reportedly stands to potentially gather random bits AFTER
> the files have been decrypted.

As a user, I too, find Krebs informative.  Also notable was this recent
Washington Post article about Linus Torvalds and Linux security:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-insecurity-the-kernel-of-the-argument/

"Fast, flexible and free, Linux is taking over the online world. But
there is growing unease about security weaknesses."

Regards,
Ralph

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Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 23:30 +0100
  Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-11-12 02:40 +0100
    Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 02:50 +0100
      Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 03:50 +0100
        Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 04:30 +0100
          Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> - 2015-11-12 19:20 +0100
            Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 20:30 +0100
              Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-13 21:40 +0100
                Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 23:30 +0100
                Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-11-14 04:30 +0100
      Re: Ransomware meets Linux - on the command line! Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 06:00 +0100

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