Summary: Articles about GNU/Linux and "malware" are more like misinformation that the press is awash with this week

AFTER some exaggerated panic over GnuTLS we hear a lot of noise about some Windows malware that's claimed to be coming from UNIX and GNU/Linux servers. One 'minor' fact that the likes of Symantec (Symantec and others) always fail to point out is that lazy/negligent people (worse than human error) are to blame, not GNU/Linux.

SJVN wrote this good response ("Linux and botnets: It's not Linux's fault!") which points out: "With Darlloz, which tends to attack devices such as small office/home office (SOHO) Internet routers, it's one way of infection is to try 13 combinations of the default user names and passwords on a device. If the gadget's owner has done the bare minimal of security: Change the blasted default user ID and/or password, they can't be infected. That's it!"

Don't relay baseless reports which leave out the real security problem, which is Windows, the operating system with back doors (by design). ⬆