John Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Sun Mar 23 21:22:18 CDT 2014
Ha! Windux, good one. I just read that the Indian government is moving from XP to Windux. The bigger it gets the more it's a target, that's fairly evident. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:35 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Malware Attack Hijacks 25,000 Linux/UNIX Servers A call to the Linux Foundation: So get to it and fix it. Nothing like a wake call to the complacent. Pretty soon they will be calling Linux, Windux. ;-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bartow" <jbartow at winhaven.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, 23 March, 2014 4:50:58 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Malware Attack Hijacks 25,000 Linux/UNIX Servers If it gets through, spam is, in and of itself, terrorizing to the common person. Many of them point out a person's inadequacies ;-) -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 11:48 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Malware Attack Hijacks 25,000 Linux/UNIX Servers According to one blog, and who knows the reality at the moment, this attack may be state sponsored, but that seems far-fetched as the malware's intention seems to be to create yet another spam zombie. Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com