Phishing - Linux boxes are vulnerable

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:24:39PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > machines. "The vast majority of [the phishing sites] we saw were on
> > rootkit-ed Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected a
> > http://tinyurl.com/36nfsm
> How do they know that the attacks are from rooted linux boxes?

Because it's generally pretty easy to tell the operating system a given web 
site is running on. Note that they're talking about *phishing sites*, not
the sites from which phishing spam or whatever originates.

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