Re: Common Unix Security Risks - Your help please!

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:17:41 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-06-08, Ben Watkins <b.u.watkins@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> What, in your minds, are the most common (top five) and potentially
> most exploitable security risks that you see in Unix/Linux
> deployments?

Clueless admins. Unpatched distributions. Too many k1dd13s scanning
for those. In the end, most computer security isn't, both in the
sense that we haven't gotten it right on the grander scale of things
yet, and in the sense that it is mostly a people problem. That last
bit has so many sides that I'm not even going to begin elaborate. 

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