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ZDNet
As I stated in my recent article about security, Linux is just as vulnerable if not more so than any other platform. Yesterday, it was announced that a popular software package for Linux distributions contains a backdoor giving full access to execute commands as a user on the host where this software package is installed.
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To quote the author of the forum post announcing the backdoor:
"It appears the replacement of the .tar.gz occurred in November 2009 (at least on some mirrors). It seems nobody noticed it until now."
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This back door exploit has been out there for more than 7 months. If this isn't an indicator of the need for better malware protection on the Linux platform, I'm not sure what is. When are we going to admit that we aren't as well protected as we assume we are? What other back doors are in open source that we just haven't found yet? The number has to be greater than zero.
ZDNet
As I stated in my recent article about security, Linux is just as vulnerable if not more so than any other platform. Yesterday, it was announced that a popular software package for Linux distributions contains a backdoor giving full access to execute commands as a user on the host where this software package is installed.
...
To quote the author of the forum post announcing the backdoor:
"It appears the replacement of the .tar.gz occurred in November 2009 (at least on some mirrors). It seems nobody noticed it until now."
...
This back door exploit has been out there for more than 7 months. If this isn't an indicator of the need for better malware protection on the Linux platform, I'm not sure what is. When are we going to admit that we aren't as well protected as we assume we are? What other back doors are in open source that we just haven't found yet? The number has to be greater than zero.
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