Thanks for the insight!!

On 2015-01-29 09:59, Todd Millecam wrote:
> Most of them are discovered by people playing around with objdump,
> digging through the assembly code and looking for oddities, then the
> exploits are generally developed with the metasploit library.  You
> really have to be able to read 64-bit assembly to do this.
> 
> If you really want to know how a lot of exploits are found and
> developed, there's a great book out there called "hacking the art of
> exploitation"  by Jon Erikson.
> 
> As for why they're coming at us faster, I blame android for making
> Linux a more tempting target.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Keith Smith
> <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> 
>> Seems these vulnerabilities are coming at us at a faster rate... or
>> maybe I am just paying more attention.  I wonder how they find
>> these.
>> 
>> On 2015-01-28 09:21, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>> 
> https://gigaom.com/2015/01/28/severe-ghost-flaw-leaves-linux-systems-vulnerable-to-takeover/
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