Linux botnet discovery points to lazy administrators

Courtesy Linux Today  Tue, 09/22/2009 - 03:02

Builder AU: "Recently, a Russian security researcher discovered a 100-node Linux "cluster" that was running a botnet which was, in turn, connected to a group of desktop machines.

Altogether these machines were serving up malware."

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