UCLA break-in puts data on 800,000 at risk

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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I'm curious NonZealot | 12/12/06

I guess here at Zdnet, Boot_Agnostic | 12/12/06

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

Good news! yyuko@... | 12/14/06

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