[Discuss] Azazel: new Linux rootkit

Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org
Mon Feb 17 08:56:19 EST 2014


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:14:52PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> I suppose having things out in the open is better then it being hidden
> away in the dark corners of the Internet, where malicious actors will
> still find it, but the typical admin not focused on malware won't run
> across it until its too late.
> 
> How do you feel about open source malware?

About the same as I feel about security bug reports with
proof-of-exploit code attached: thanks for pointing it out, we'd
better fix that. Except that, in this case they didn't write or
distribute the bug report particularly well.

-dsr-



More information about the Discuss mailing list