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Depends on what you do
If you have a system at home or at work that you are responsible for this *might* be useful information to keep it from happening to you.

Prob'ly not many home users will be running Solaris, fewer still AIX or HP-UX. But if it is a problem with Win, Lin or Mac it might be worth looking into. Haters will shout even if there is no actual event for them to comment on. It's how they are, don't feed the hunger inside them.

That said, any serious admin will have their own sources of info on patches, workarounds, hardening procedures and newly discovered flaws and vulnerabilities. How the database was compromised doesn't seem to have come up in the conversation so far. Since that is where the data leak is I think it should be analyzed first and then find out how to prevent it on the platform that it was running on.

YMMV (Your machine may vomit)
Posted by: Still Lynn   Posted on: 12/13/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Any word on the computer setup that was hacked?  olePigeon | 12/12/06
I'm curious  NonZealot | 12/12/06
Stop beating him with the common sense stick  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/12/06
I guess here at Zdnet,  Boot_Agnostic | 12/12/06
I'm with NonZealot on this...  RicD_ | 12/12/06
Loverock is a zealot, I was just curious. [nt]  olePigeon | 12/13/06
Depends on what you do  Still Lynn | 12/13/06
Unix  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/12/06
Sure it does, Axey.  OButterball | 12/12/06
Sure it does, Axey.  OButterball | 12/12/06
computer setup that was hacked  ator1940 | 12/12/06
most likely a "user problem"  toadlife | 12/12/06
Probably a user config error.  osreinstall | 12/12/06
Hey that's my ID and password  BXLE | 12/13/06
A head needs to be rolled; Arnold Schwarzenegger  mighetto | 12/13/06
Resignations at Veterans Adminisration over Less  mighetto | 12/14/06
Good news!  yyuko@... | 12/14/06

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