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Microsoft Rules Netbooks Now, But ARM/Linux Threat Grows | |
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| Time: 13:58 EST/18:58 GMT | News Source: Network World Fusion | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft today sits comfortably atop the growing netbook market with Windows garnering 90 percent of netbook sales in November, December and January, according to research firm The NPD Group. What about Linux? With just 10 percent netbook market share, the open-source OS is a toothless tiger for now. But Linux-based netbooks may encroach on Microsoft's success in the near future. Two looming threats: Google may decide to run its operating system, Android, on netbooks and low-power processors from smartphone chip licenser ARM may take off in netbooks. | ||
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| #1 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 3/26/2009 3:08:09 PM |
| IT IS THE YEAR OF LINUX... I SO PROCLAIM IT! |
| #2 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 3/26/2009 4:55:44 PM |
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#1 Hail the prophet. Yes, it is the YEAR OF LINUX!!!
" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Botnet targeted up to 100,000 DSL modems and routers by Steve Ragan - Mar 24 2009, 18:58 Botnet targeted 80-100,000 DSL modems and routers. (IMG: Netcomm) There is a new Worm, an IRC-based Bot called Psyb0t, which is targeting embedded Linux devices. The devices, commonly DSL modems or OpenWrt / DD-WRT, must be mipsel based and have SSH, Telnet , or Web-based interfaces available to the WAN, to qualify as vulnerable. Psyb0t itself is not new. In late 2008, researcher Terry Baume discovered the botnet and wrote about it and its methods earlier this year. You can read his research here. Baume’s research focused on the Netcomm MB5 ASDL modem, but later discovered that modem brands in Italy, Brazil, Ecuador, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Peru, Malaysia, Columbia, India, and Egypt were suspect as well. Adding to this is the OpenWRT and DD-WRT projects, which would open the infection point up to devices in the U.S. and U.K. The botnet came into the public eye this week because of a report posted by DroneBL, a real-time monitor of abusable IPs. DroneBL noticed the botnet as it investigated Denial-of-Service attacks on its systems. Digging deeper, it discovered the same botnet that Baume had written about, but now it was much larger -- the group speculated that the botnet was around 100,000 systems strong." http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200913/3290/Botnet-targeted-up-to-100-000-DSL-modems-and-routers |
| #3 By 15406 (99.240.65.32) at 3/26/2009 7:26:11 PM |
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#2: I think you forgot this part:
"The botnet used brute force to crack most of the routers and modems, weak passwords never stood a chance and, because of this, tens of thousands of devices were added to the botnet." So if you had a particular router with a particular chipset, with a particular firmware version, and weak passwords, then it could brute-force it. Wow, that's a real knock against Linux. Good thing it wasn't embedded Windows or it would have been owned before you took it out of the box. |
| #4 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 3/26/2009 7:47:19 PM |
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You left this out:
"Aside from the mentioned requirements leading to infection, that is SSH, Telnet, or Web-based interfaces available to the WAN, there are two other requirements. The first is that the firmware on the DSL modem or router have vulnerable Daemons" http://lwn.net/Articles/222153/ " Unfortunately, it is increasingly clear that Linux boxes (as well as MacOS X and other UNIX boxes) are participating in botnets, but in a bit of a twist, it is mostly servers that have been subverted." "The attacks are largely targeted at everyone's favorite Internet security whipping boy, PHP applications. n source PHP applications are the main target as they are ubiquitous and typically easy to exploitsome recent research indicates. An additional benefit of targeting a higher level application is that it is a cross-platform exploit; the operating system and web server software are immaterial if the target is a PHP application. " The YEAR OF OSS!!! Botnets! This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 19:47. |
| #5 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 3/27/2009 7:59:20 AM |
| #4: It's awfully rich for a Microsoft sycophant to be pointing out his glass house and yelling 'botnet!'. |
| #6 By 9589 (76.4.22.39) at 3/28/2009 3:59:00 AM |
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Gee, still another article heralding the "take over of Linux." lol And, then, we have the bogus figure of 10% market share being accorded Linux. Of course, no reference to any hard data is conveniently provided. My bet is even those that are saving $50 bucks by buying the Linux version of a Netbook are as quickly installing Windows XP.
Must be a slow news day . . . Meanwhile, does anyone think that Intel is going to sit on its hands while ARM gains market share in the Netbook arena? Fat chance . . . And the absurd notion that Google's Android can be used as a desktop OS? Yeah, right. Maybe Google ought to first establish a presence on cell phones, first. It is a mere blip there now. Must be slow news day . . . |
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