[PLUG] Got hacked last night - HELP!
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Oct 4 19:44:04 UTC 2004
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> I've been running Linux servers for several years, and the one time
> I got hacked was on a Red Hat (7.2) system, back when that version
> was current. So I feel that for security, Red Hat is not your best
> option.
Any system that's unpatched is vulnerable. Red Hat 8, which Red Hat
stopped supporting on Dec. 31, 2003, is at best ten months out of
date.
It's certainly possible to run an older version of Red Hat, but to do
so you have to be willing to take on the responsibility of tracking
all vulnerabilities and building new versions of packages for which
exploits are available. It's not impossible, but it's a lot of work.
-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
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