Phishing - Linux boxes are vulnerable

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:30:18AM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Because it's generally pretty easy to tell the operating system a given web
> > site is running on. Note that they're talking about *phishing sites*, not
> > the sites from which phishing spam or whatever originates.
> The question still stands.... how do they know the attacks are from a
> _rooted_ linux box? You don't need root to put put a phishing site,
> esp. on a shared host.

Fair enough. They're just using that term incorrectly.

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