Security Leftovers
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Deja Vu
HP finds that 50% of malware involves That Other OS, you know, the one that drove me to GNU/Linux fifteen years ago when I was teaching in the North and could not keep TOOS running for more than a few hours on students’ PCs.
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Official Linux Mint Distro Download Website Hit By Malware
Anyone who downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition last Saturday has more than likely been compromised by hackers.
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What should the Linux Mint developers do to regain the trust of users?
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More Linux Phones, More Mint Hack & Just Plain More…
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Is Linux Mint a crude hack of existing Debian-based distributions?
The news about the Linux Mint site getting hacked has caused many Linux users to question the quality of the distribution. One user on LWN.net took the Linux Mint developers to task for a number of things that he felt made the distribution a bad choice for desktop users.
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Linux Mint Forum Database Compromised for at Least a Month Before Announcement
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Mint Update now checks for TSUNAMI backdoor [Update]
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Hackers Infiltrate Linux Mint OS, Compromise User Forum
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Know all about Linux Mint desktop’s issue over backdoored?
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Linux Mint Online Site Spread Malevolent ISOs
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Linux Mint Website Compromise
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Level 3 Threat Research Labs Reveals New Timeline for Linux Mint Backdoor
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Security issues, Linux Mint, and switching distros
I recently switched back to using Linux Mint (17.3 KDE) after over a year using Windows 10. I am used to this particular Linux distribution and have strongly preferred it ever since I began using it back in 2008. I am not a power user, but also not a total newcomer to using Linux. I am 51 and have been using Linux for about 14 years now. Recent events involving Mint have prompted me to think about why I use it, about some of the criticism it has gotten, and whether or not it is time to move on to a different Linux distribution full-time at home.
Short answer: Not yet. But it’s something I will consider carefully for the future.
Last Saturday (2/20/16) the website at Linux Mint was hacked and the download page for the default installation ISO was redirected to point to a malicious specially crafted ISO that included a backdoor. This has been fixed (initially by taking down the page), but meanwhile it turned out that the forum’s database had also been stolen at some point in January and fairly substantial private information from users was obtained (and later apparently offered for sale.) My installation was on February 2nd, so I am fine (and I use KDE, which wasn’t even the edition the crackers had changed). The forum password (for me only) was just a long complex one that Mint had sent me as a reset from a year ago, which I never changed. So I got really lucky – I don’t have to change any other passwords because that one was unique to the Mint forums.
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Security Researchers At Red Hat And Google Warn Of Serious Linux Skeleton Key Vulnerability
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Cheat Sheet For Patching Glibc Critical Vulnerability For Linux Systems
Last week, a Google engineer discovered a bug and critical vulnerability in the GNU C library (glibc) used by most Linux desktop and server distributions to support a variety of system calls. A number of distributions have already released patches for the vulnerability. If you have yet to patch and reboot your Linux systems, Pen Test Partners has made the following cheat sheet to make the process easier.
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Security Malpractice, Windows Support, and T-Shirts
Today in Linux news James Sanders took Linux Mint and other distributions to task for lack of security, saying some can't even be classified distributions.
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87% of Open-Source Vulns Are XSS and SQL Injection
Cross-site scripting, also known as XSS, allows the attacker to inject malicious client-side scripts into a website, which are later executed by the victims while browsing the website. There are different cross-site scripting variants, all of which can be used to craft different types of attacks.
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The Most Common Vulnerabilities in Open Source Web Applications Are XSS and SQLi
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