[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.4EL planning... how stable?

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:46, Doug Simpson wrote:
> > >     
> > I wouldn't do automatic updates either, but I do update
> > often and am not aware of any recent new Centos vulnerabilities.
> > Do you have any idea what happened?
> > 
> >   
> I have no idea what happened other than that after the udatres, 4
> updated servers got hacked and rootkits were installed.  Different
> rootkits on each one with different consequences.

The thing I'd suspect first would be root password guessing - there
are a lot of scripted attempts happening on the internet now, and
that wouldn't be related to updates.  Or perhaps some application
not part of the normal disto.  

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   Les Mikesell
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