Re: Phishing - Linux boxes are vulnerable

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Mike Wright wrote:
Jacques B. wrote:
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I'm no expert on this topic. But I do know a case where the
application that was running on the web server was exploited due to a
vulnerability in that application, not in Apache or the Linux box.  I
suspect that is the case more often than not.  Someone compromises a
web site that is running a vulnerable application.  That site happens
to be hosted on a Linux box (because let's face it, a lot of web
servers out there run on *nix).


Hi Jacques.

I think you're right on the money there. Google for phpbb and hack for an example of your point.

There's also a huge amount of ssh password-guessing going on, and with most distos, ssh is enabled by default on port 22. What I've seen appears to be very carefully time-constrained as though the programs doing it are trying large numbers of machines at once and limiting the attempts to any single machine to avoid notice.

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  Les Mikesell
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