@SJSmith@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoLinux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen wormarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down152
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minus-square@cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoWhat use is an immutable system, if it doesn’t already have the data on it that an attacker can steal?
minus-square@excitingburp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoWorms are near impossible to install on an immutable system. You can’t just write to /usr/share/bin or some other truck to hide your binary. It doesn’t help at all with exfiltration
minus-square@cyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYour last sentence is exactly my point.
/ laughs in immutable Linux
What use is an immutable system, if it doesn’t already have the data on it that an attacker can steal?
Worms are near impossible to install on an immutable system. You can’t just write to /usr/share/bin or some other truck to hide your binary. It doesn’t help at all with exfiltration
Your last sentence is exactly my point.