Re: [Sheflug] RedHat and Script Kiddies

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Hi everyone.

I think this is more the point :

"...limits itself to infecting Red Hat servers that haven't been secured
properly."

(from the article Craig mentioned).

I just nipped over to RedHat.com (again) to check when all the fixes
came out - they've got a page covering the worm.. the updates came out
June, July and October 2000.

 It says something if sysadmins don't patch their systems for that long!

 The worm is also taking advantage of traditionally iffy servers -
something I would have expected most people to really keep an eye out
for updates or not run - wu-ftpd, NFS (and LPrng).

 Obviously not.

 BTW, nice to see everyone has woken up again!

 Baz.

Craig Andrews wrote:
> 
> Interesting this. A sage warning for ALL network admins..
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2675147,00.html
> 

"...limits itself to infecting Red Hat servers that haven't been secured
properly."
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