[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stopped supporting on Dec. 31, 2003, is at best ten months out of 
date.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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