Re: [clug-talk] withdraw

2014-03-21 Thread Mel Walters
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 20:00 -0600, R Edwards wrote: > Its been brought to my attention that this is something I am not going > to be able to do, so it is with apologies that I say I must withdraw my > bid to run as President for the group. I will be removing myself from > the email lists and am s

Re: [clug-talk] Linux malware

2014-03-21 Thread Mel Walters
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 12:24 -0600, Greg King wrote: > Looks like Linux malware is becoming mainstream. > > Surf to > http://www.darkreading.com/applications/linux-takeover-artists-fling-35m-spam-me/240166712?cid=email > Thanks for that interesting article Greg. Some questions come to me as I

[clug-talk] Elections :-)

2014-03-21 Thread Bogi
Great, so are we going to have some real election campaigning, with debates and lawn sings... Cheers Sam ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guideli

Re: [clug-talk] Linux malware

2014-03-21 Thread Lewko, Robert
> On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 12:24 -0600, Greg King wrote: >> Looks like Linux malware is becoming mainstream. >> >> Surf to >> http://www.darkreading.com/applications/linux-takeover-artists-fling-35m-spam-me/240166712?cid=email >> > > Thanks for that interesting article Greg. > > Some questions come to

Re: [clug-talk] Linux malware

2014-03-21 Thread Gustin Johnson
There are millions of Linux based servers. These attacks are not personal against Linux, merely that 2/3 of web servers happen to be Linux, and then tend to have a decent amount of bandwidth. They are also likely to have unpatched PHP applications. These Linux servers are also more likely to be