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How widespread, really?

How widespread, really?

Posted Sep 20, 2002 13:39 UTC (Fri) by nas (subscriber, #17)
Parent article: That OpenSSL Worm

I think the press is slightly exaggerating the spread of this worm. Read the story and it sounds like a Unix version of Code Red. When Code Red was in full force I saw tons of bogus requests in our server's access logs. When I heard about the OpenSSL worm I immediately setup an iptables logging rule on one of our machines to watch for it. I haven't seen a single packet on UDP port 2002.

I'm not saying Unix is not vulnerable to the same types of security problems as Windows. Unix servers need compliant people to maintain them.


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How widespread, really?

Posted Sep 21, 2002 11:10 UTC (Sat) by ion++ (guest, #2433) [Link]

Not only Unix servers need compliant people to maintain them. All computers needs complaint and competent people to maintain them, it doesnt matter what kind of computer it is.

JonB

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