[kj] (OT) SSH Hacked - Mac users take notice !

[Phillipps Marc]

SSH has an open vulnerability, and it is being exploited.

If you are running Linux, Unix and Mac OS/X  shutdown your SSH port until
you apply patches. This one is especially untimely as the main scriptkiddie
hacking tools now gives them the version numbers of what software is running
which port, so they can see if you're unpatched.


SSH hole:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/1327248&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=
172

NMAP with version numbers:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/133228&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=1
72

Marc
With a strange warm windows user glow :o)



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