[PLUG-Devel] HackFest Linux Security Series: Happy Valentines Day - How to Create a Linux Virus in Five Minutes "Required Reading for the Enlightened MailLister"

[Lisa Kachold]

Click on this attachment and save it to your desktop and we can test if this works?Just kidding!  But if you are game, let me know and we can actually prove it with a lab?obnosis.com | wiki.obnosis.com| (503)754-4452PLUG HACKFESTS 2nd Saturday Each Month at Noon - 3PM> Subject: Re: HackFest Linux Security Series: Happy Valentines Day - How to	Create a Linux Virus in Five Minutes "Required Reading for the	Enlightened MailLister"> From: jasons at spatafore.net> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:48:17 -0700> CC: plug-devel at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> > Umm, no offense, but this article is a ton of "if-then-else" type> thinking. > > "You can...no, really, you can...if..."> > I love the line about "Just because it can't affect the whole system> doesn't mean it can't cause damage."> > That's the *whole point* of using *nix! A user cannot kill the *system*.> That is the whole point....> > Lisa, I think you sent this just to get people going....:)> > > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:43 +0000, Lisa Kachold wrote:> > On Friday the 13th, the end of the universe as we know it, right> > before Valentines Day attachment madness, we examine the techno-urban> > myth "Linux is more secure than Windows" with this excellent treatise> > on linux security.  It includes "Getting Root" and "pwning your> > friends/enemies" in one easy click.> > > > obnosis.com | wiki.obnosis.com| (503)754-4452> > PLUG HACKFESTS 2nd Saturday Each Month at Noon - 3PM> > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________> > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. See how it works.> > ---------------------------------------------------> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > ---------------------------------------------------> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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