Tirsdag den 5. oktober 2004 04:25 skrev Sid Boyce:
Johan Nielsen wrote:
Mandag den 4. oktober 2004 12:27 skrev Sid Boyce:
peter Nikolic wrote:
On Monday 04 Oct 2004 02:54, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
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Sure, Linux is harder to break into. but after all, Linux also has its infamous rootkit. On the principle that better neighborhoods attract a better class of burglers, Linux would attract sufficiently talented hackers if it were in wider use.
Linux, with its underlying foundation of old C code, is particularly vulnerable to buffer-overflow attacks.
Paul
Ever heard of Libsafe .. ?....
worth investigating i dont get problems from buffer overflow attacks thanks to Libsafe it can them before they can cause mischief ..
Pete
Silly question for you and Pete. How would you implement "Libsafe" into you Suse distro ??
Secondly other suggestions/"easy" usable pointers to make SuSE a safe place to be ;-)
TIA
Johan
You just install it and it asks if you want to deploy it system wide, say yes and it's up and running. Regards Sid.
Thank you for that piece of info .... marked this part of the thread. Will come in handy when I go AMD64 shopping and "retire" this P4 2.8E@3.1 (conservertively OC'ed max stable OC @ 3.4GHz) 1 gig PC as the safe point here. Johan