Ancient Linux servers: The blighted slum houses of the Internet

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 23, 2014 6:18 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Dan Goodin
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Earlier this week, Ars reported on attacks exploiting an extremely critical vulnerability in the PHP scripting language almost two years after the bug came to light. By going 22 months without installing crucial patches, the responsible administrators were menacing the entire Internet.........Now comes word of a new mass compromise that preys on even more neglected Web severs, some running versions of the Linux operating system kernel first released in 2007...

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