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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting500k devices
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Anonymous wrote: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/fbi-tells-router-users-to-reboot-now-to-kill-malware-infecting-500k-devices/ "Stage 1 infects devices running Busybox- and Linux-based firmware" Here's that superior linux operating system again. |
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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
On Sat, 26 May 2018 10:55:33 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio
wrote: In article Anonymous wrote: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/fbi-tells-router-users-to-reboot-now-to-kill-malware-infecting-500k-devices/ "Stage 1 infects devices running Busybox- and Linux-based firmware" Here's that superior linux operating system again. Busybox is a toy. It isn't a mainstream Linux product. Android is Linux based, but probably the least secure system out there, almost as bad as Windows! 'Droid phones, followed by Droid tablets, followed by Windows tablets. Don't expect security on something that is "Easy to use!" Easy for the most daft limited windows user... |
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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting500k devices
On 2018-05-27, default wrote:
Don't expect security on something that is "Easy to use!" Easy for the most daft limited windows user... The devil is in the details. Security is hard and as you say it is the enemy of ease-of-use for nontechnical end-users. Most embedded devices like home routers are running stripped-down code on top of an old kernel. Most likely all processes are running as root. Security is poor to begin and even if security updates are made available most users will never install them. Under those kind of conditions it really doesn't matter what the underlying OS is, you're just begging to be cracked. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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