Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[prehistoric]

@kattami,

Have strong evidence this is unlikely to be big forces of darkness.

Is "bear" a prince of insufficient light?

prehistoric

[raffy]

[prehistoric]

Here's some thought-provoking material from Bruce Scheier.
http://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html

Here's a description of Schneier himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier

I first knew about him because of his work in cryptography, back when I was more mathematical than today. His Applied Cryptography is a classic.
When he went into Computer Security as a professional, he had a series of shocks. This formed the basis of his book Secrets and Lies.

The classic example from that book, for me, is the teenage hacker he interviewed. How did he break in?

[BarryK]

My site is violated again. The main page of puppylinux.com, but that's probably the tip of the iceberg.
I have to get stuck into cleaning it up.

[ymer]

A very dumb question or maybe suggestion:

The story is that I've always fears of puppy running only with a root account, a simple compromise would allow the intruder to take control of everything, which you know what could be done by that.

Also, I think it would be great to have a notification system integrated into puppy: for example if some serious security patches comes up or ... shouldn't we get notified by some applications rather than waiting for us or the user to visit the forums, news, ... sections to find out that we had to update something.

I know that Linux in general is more secure (or at least more securable) than M$, but I think those days of Linux hacking are coming and with this trend we might get caught with our pants down.

Sorry for a rather long post.

PS: I know these kind of topics for sure have been discussed before, but by rising of these kind of treats, shouldn't we put these into the priority of puppy Linux.

[Flash]

Prehistoric, I suppose it would be better to link directly to a book's website, like this.

[RobertB]

[ttuuxxx]

My site was attacked also and it took my service providers 4 days to work it out, They went out and bought new servers and transfered all my files and folders. Now it up and running perfectly, I have a strong feeling that it was the phpbb forum that i have that was hacked. I think i'll have to change to a different forum, I get tooooooo much porn ads anyways and that really peeves me off. Hope everyone else don't get the hassles that I did. I couldn't even log into my server. And in the end it was 100% offline. I do want to thank all the support from people who were worried.
ttuuxxx

[wingruntled]

ttuuxxx
Since all this hacking started I have been viewing the source code for pages that the Firefox plugin NoScripts red flags. Even though your site is up and running now, I found this line to be a little strange at the very start of your index.

link href="file:///C|/Documents and Settings/sparepc/Desktop/liquid design/project.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"

???

[ttuuxxx]

ya thats a stupid line. I still use Dreamweaver CS3 for my websites, well I took a diploma class in web development and all we learned was Dreamweaver for desktops, and CMS php server-side. Strange we had to learn Microsoft products for the Creative side, and Linux for servers. I would of rather to learn Code 100% but noooo it was like 10%. So I'm teaching myself as I go, but really for websites without a content management system, Dreamweaver is pretty good, and damn Adobe for not porting it to Linux, only apple and windows. grrrrrr
ttuuxxx

[prehistoric]

@ttuuxxx,

A friend who teaches classes about internet development also has a Dreamweaver habit that is hard to break. Some weeks ago I sent him a note after I heard that Dreamweaver now works on Linux under WINE. Haven't had a response from him. If you want the reference I can dig it out, but I expect you can find it faster.

prehistoric

[ttuuxxx]

If Dreamweaver cs3 and Photoshop cs3 works under wine, I'll format my web development xp PC to puppy this weekend, But first i'll try it on my Fire Hydrant pc, make sure it works fine, better safe then sorry Hmmm I also would need a dvd burning program that removes menus,css, macrovision. Any Ideas? I always copy my kids dvd's because they are really hard on the orginals, so i give them the copies, that way I always have a perfect backup. Since Filezilla already works on puppy as a pet package, thats my favorite FTP program and then Fireftp the Firefox addon, well have to go to work.
ttuuxx

[bobwrit]

[jimhap]

Wow... all of this while I was away????

Whoever did this is weird and mad. Obviously they want to kill Puppy for no reason.

As for security stuff, here is my story:
My website was hacked. The index.html had been changed. THis guy was also attempting to install viruses on me to, with an MP3 virus.

And the system the host was running had PHP safe be on the mode on.
I later found out it was either the control panels fault, or the fact that the server was insecure, and was hacked into.


@BarryK:
Suggestion: maybe use what Xorg's website uses: MoinMoin.

I think it may Servage's end. They had security holes that was never noticed until now.

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As someone said already, it has been a pattern. And as scary as it is, I have came to a conclusion: since Linux is rising, the crackers are rising too. They are interested in Linux now. I have to say, Linux had a victory. Compiz Fusion rocks and everything went wild. And Vista just died. But now, the theory hat a virus can't kill Linux unless under special conditions is put to the test.

And why am I drawing this conclusion? IT is a pattern.

There was another shock at Ubuntu.....
(I was fooling around with Ubuntu for a while....)
On their forums, some crazy dumb people were eager enough to let newbies kill themselves!!!!

(http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?f=13)

Hope there is no more attacks at Puppy anymore.....

jimhap

[ttuuxxx]