"Security professionals took note of a critical new vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could enable an attacker to gain root access to a vulnerable machine and take complete control of it. An unknown cracker recently used this weakness to compromise several of the Debian Project's servers, which led to the discovery of the new vulnerability.
"This discovery has broad implications for the Linux community. Because the flaw is in the Linux kernel itself, the problem affects virtually every distribution of the operating system and several vendors have confirmed that their products are vulnerable. The vulnerability is in all releases of the kernel from Version 2.4.0 through 2.5.69, but has been fixed in Releases 2.4.23-pre7 and 2.6.0-test6..."
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Every three to four years (or 8000 MS security holes) someone someone finds a Linux hole and fixes it. Then we go back to playing cards with the Maytag man.
I see how it is. Seems more like as it becomes used more it becomes more venerable to hackers and problems! Just think if it had to do more than file share and print!!!!!
I'm just stirring the pot as they stated there was a patch that had to be loaded on each machine separately.
Are those user years as the HC guys use that to say 1 billion served!!!!!!!!!
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No, those are calendar years. There is a proscribed ceremony that is supposed to occur if a serious design error is discovered where someone cuts one of Linus Torvolds nuts off, but no one has ever attended the ceremony.
And you thought Bill Gates has that odd voice because his underwear is one size too small...
That sounds just like a Linux solution! I'll have to say in advance, it will be one meeting I'll have to miss!!!!
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I keep forgetting that media thing!!!!
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Just antoher Linux issue I have to dael with today. Sure wish these guys would use a MS product.
From our hosting provider:
Tim,
I have spoken with our webalizer admin and your webalizer site should be functioning correctly. I have logged in and the stats are current. Webalizer updates itself once a night so your log files are showing up to yesterday. Tomorrow morning when webalizer updates itself you will see the stats for today. The only thing currently not working is the Update Now button. This has been temporarily disabled because it is causing trouble on the server. Our linux admins are working on getting this restored. Once it is restored we will let you know.
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Gosh, what year did the internet become popular anyway? I can recall paying a fortune for a 300 bbs modem in the early 90's just to get access to a local bulletin board service, was no internet here at that time. I recall having fits with Win3.1 and Winsock and was the first kid on the block to get Win95, so I must have been on the net in around 1993 or 1994, just asked my net nut son, he can't pinpoint the date either. LOL, I do recall having so many problems with Win95, I went back to Winsock, but put 95 back on my box in around 97 when MS finally solved most of the bugs.
I also recall somewhere around that time, my one and only computer got infected with bugs, man that was a mess to retrieve all of my important data and much of it was lost forever. Since then, I pulled the plug on that computer and got another one just for being exposed to the net. Don't' worry about this one I am using now, nothing important on it, my interface with my main computer is a zip drive after doing the latest virus check on any files I transfer over. Never had problems with my main computer since, and it doesn't have any protection on it whatsoever, it simply is not plugged into the net or any LAN.
Guess I am trying to say, that the internet is very young, but it almost seems unreasonable that all these virus's, worms, Trojan Horse's, etc., and all this other crap pops up faster than a guy can keep up with. There has to be more than just some high school kid fooling around as it will take an incredible effort to find all of those weaknesses.
It seems insane that someone would go through all that effort to screw up someone else's box, nothing really is gained, would be far more profitable to hold some some old lady and swipe her food stamps.
I recall seeing a commercial on TV in the 60's that one out of ten people have a mental disease and said, wow, do I know anyone that is nut's? Couldn't think of anyone back then, but then by learning the signs, I feel now that about 6 out of 10 people I meet are nuts.
I just loaded Win98SE on an old 133 MHz notebook without any protection software on it, who cares, gosh that machine boots fast and beats a 1.2GHz box with all that protection crap on it for downloading on the net. Seems like more effort is put into Y2K and protection problems than developing good software. The price we all have to pay for living with nuts.
I'm in real trouble now as I just found out our new storefront in on a Linux server.
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One thing about the net I am appreciating is that all my kids, and some brothers and sisters are on Road Runner. They just started a strong anti-SPAM program where my e-mails were all bounced back as SPAM. I had to get approval from them that took 24 hours, but my family tells me that their SPAM has dropped down to nothing.
That's the good news, the bad news is that I am sure the SPAMMERS will find a means to work around that. Even though I am on a different server, I noticed my SPAM has been cut down significantly since Road Runner made that move.
SPAM is annoying but I personally think the best approach is hitting the delete key. Setting up rules is easy enough with Outlook but its just a waste of time to be concerned with it. What pissed me off more was when an employee opened the bogus MS patch which allowed a user in Mexico to spam through our email server, ran porn spam 24/7 for about a week. So now all email from Mexico has been blocked and employee will never open that file again or any other!!!!
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I agree something should be done to stop it all together. My comment was more to the point of setting up filters and such to stop Spam. While some work spammers still find a way to get through.
What I find funny is all these spammers sending spam on how to stop spam!!!
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Actually spam has become the wild wild west of outlaws. The cops get bigger guns and the bad guys get better bulletproof vests. We know that filters only work as well as the people programming them, to a point. Spammer are using adaptive spam to get past the filters. That's the spam that the random characters in the mail. That blows past filters that check to see if the same mail is directed at lots of people. Since it's not, it gets by.
The newer type of spam control is called bayeasian filters. It looks at words that you identify as being likely to be spam. Words like mortgage, penis, viagra, sex would likely trigger it. Seeing these several times raises the score. Bayeasian filters give the spam a score, as a percentile, as the likelihood of being spam. These also need to be customized, as the word mortgage would be used in the course of business for a bank, but not a AC shop. The spammers bypass this test by misspelling the words like mortagage, peanis, eviagra, and havesex. You can still read it, but it fools the computers.
While I don't think spammers in jail will fix the problem, it's a good first step.
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Perhaps I don't understand the purpose of spam (Other dipping it in batter and deep frying it) but surly spam is advertising somthing that these guys want to sell. Perhaps if the people who advertise their products via spam rather than the spammers themselves were prosecuted this would help. Obviously this would not work in all cases as I do feel that some spam is sent purly for irritation, but it would help.
Linux? What did you expect when you bought a product with Penguins on?
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Never knock on deaths door... Ring the doorbell and run away, death really hates that!
Would you buy anything from anybody that gives you a false address and phone number? My major SPAM now is a worthless filter for cheating the cable company, a 100 buck magnet that is suppose to increase my fuel economy by 27%, software that is suppose to get rid of SPAM, teenage girls that promise to appear naked on a webcam, lonely married housewives that want to cheat on their husbands, (I hate these more than any other ones, these bitches should go to work so their husbands can stay home and cheat on them), then those countless 100% worthless pills that promise to make certain male organs ten times their original size, and on-line prescription medications that no one in their right mind would touch with a ten foot pole.
Recently been getting SPAMS on investments, most of these won't bounce back because of phoney e-mail addresses, earning $50,000 per week using your computer part time SPAMS seem to be on the decline. The few SPAMS that I received that looked interesting have phoney links, don't even brother looking at those anymore and I can read them without notifying the spammer that I peeked.
I don't believe K5's report that 50% of all e-mails are SPAM, from my own experience and talking to others, it's more like 90%.
What really tees me off is that my server knows an e-mail has a phone e-mail or an IP address, it won't let me bounce that crap back, so why don't they block it from ever even entering my server in-box. I feel that the servers themselves are dishing out e-mail addresses or somehow the hackers are breaking into their e-mail data base due to poor security measures. The servers themselves have to take action, and I applaud those that do.
I'l tell you what's even more annoying. I recently changed ISPs so I have a new email ID. I hardly get any spam now but instead I keep getting mail subsystem bouncebacks of spam that went out under my email address. So someone's sending who knows how many pieces of crap all over the country with my email ID on them and the only ones I know about are those that are undeliverable.
I should have said, you couldn't buy anything from most of this SPAM stuff if you even wanted to with phoney e-mail addresses, forged IP addresses, and web links that don't even exist. So some jerks are just flooding the net with garbage. I have heard about using your computer as a relay station for resending this junk, so it's more like a worm or a virus. I ran some kind of program my son sent to me that is suppose to check if your computer is acting as a relay station, it didn't find anything on my box.
Whoever is originating all this phoney SPAM is bored.
Nah, they're not bored. Another news site that I read has done interviews with former spammers. This is about cold, hard cash. Mortgage companies and pharmecutical companies pay a few cents per sale/lead. Not much, But, if you can do 100,000 leads/sales, then you are really doing something. And all it takes is a couple of computers, running 24x7, spewing spam to millions of people a day. You could do it too. But then we would have to hunt you down and make you pay for your misdeeds.
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I don't get it K5, most of the SPAM I get now has a no good e-mail address, and if links are provided, they are also phoney, so who is trying to sell me what? Where do I send my money?
The honest advertisers let me cancel any e-mail notices.
This is why I have concerns about the Internet Spamming Bill. Same as the Kyoto Protocol, what's the point if the US or just a few counties follow the rules? I personally think China, India or even Russia will hardly crack down on Spam being generated from their countries. I had problems from a Mexican Porn outfit spamming through our mail server. We can't or won't even stop the illegals running across our border let alone worry about what's going on through the phone lines. Hey let's give them social security payments for breaking the law, that sounds like a good approach to me.
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This spam is getting more interesting the more I look at it. I found www.cantv.net to be Spanish. Since I am fluent in Spanish, no sweat. I traced it to Venezuela. I also did some research on cn.net. More digging found:
Registrant:
CANTV Servicios
Av. Francisco de Miranda, Centro Lido
Torre A, Piso 4, Oficina. 41-A
Caracas, Miranda 1060
VE
Domain name: CANTV.NET
Administrative Contact:
Domain Registration, CANTV Servicios csdomreg@cantv.net
Av. Francisco de Miranda, Centro Lido
Torre A, Piso 4, Oficina. 41-A
Caracas, Miranda 1060
VE
582-9013850 Fax: 582-9013763
Technical Contact:
Domain Registration, CANTV Servicios csdomreg@cantv.net
Av. Francisco de Miranda, Centro Lido
Torre A, Piso 4, Oficina. 41-A
Caracas, Miranda 1060
VE
582-9013850 Fax: 582-9013763
Registration Service Provider:
CANTV.NET, csdomreg@cantv.net
58-212-9013650
58-212-9013738 (fax)
http://www.cantv.net
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
cn.net;
Administrative Contact:
DATA COMMUNICATION B
DATA COMMUNICATION BUREAU
Beijing Beijing
China
tel:
fax:
INREG@CHINADNS.COM
Technical Contact:
liu xueling
beijing guozhengtong wangluo keji youxian gongsi
beijing zhongguancun nan da jie 27hao zhongyangdasha 3ceng
beijing Beijing 100088
China
tel: 86 10 62381083 1642
fax: 86 10 62391025
uplot.liuxl@uplot.com
Billing Contact:
liu xueling
beijing guozhengtong wangluo keji youxian gongsi
beijing zhongguancun nan da jie 27hao zhongyangdasha 3ceng
beijing Beijing 100088
China
tel: 86 10 62381083 1642
fax: 86 10 62391025
uplot.liuxl@uplot.com
Registration Date: 1995-01-26
Update Date: 2003-12-09
Expiration Date: 2006-01-27
Now, we just need someone to kick butt.
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