[mdlug] [Wftl-lug] eBay phishing Linux-driven?

[Michael Rudas]

Harry Holt (WFTL-LUG) wrote:

> So they aren't talking about Linux machines being root-kitted, but rather as
> being better networking machines than Windows, while the compromised
> Windows machines act as the zombie horde.

Jeff Hanson (MDLUG) wrote:

> Probably misleading either intentionally or out of ignorance.

...which was pretty much my point.  The presentation is framed (and
titled: "eBay phishers use Linux botnets") as though the Linux boxen
WERE some sort of sooper-seekrit botnet in-and-of themselves.  How
many MSCE drones will read it that way and not grok the truth?

-- Mikey