So as a new Linux guy that just has Ubuntu installed on a laptop running media server, sounds like I shouldn’t be worried since it is NAT’d behind my router and this worm compromises telnet and SSH connections. Am I getting the gist right? Totally newb here again.
Not particularly security savvy, but :
The infected devices then attempt to crack the telnet password by guessing default and commonly used credential pairs.
My understanding is that the worm is targetting connected devices with supidly simple credentials, which is why “Internet-of-Things” is mentioned?
Looking at sites like insecam.org, the amount of devices still sett to admin/admin is frighteningly high
I’m guessing, per the article, that as long as you’re not exposing telnet/ssh directly, you should be ok? If you’re doing that already, why? I could see having some iot device that isn’t properly segmented from the rest of your lan already problematic, and something like this would be a concern.
I shouldn’t be on Linux, I don’t know anything about computers. This is why Windows is the safer bet.
Whenever linux has a big sercurity issue, its a big deal. whenever windows has a big security issue, its just another tuesday.
That should tell you that windows systems are targeted much more.
True, but that’s the point.
Linux isn’t safer because it’s more secure, it’s safer because no one writing malware is going to target only 4% of the market when they could write malware for 60% of the market.
Dude, literally the entire internet runs on Linux. Microsoft runs its own Linux distribution in their data centers.
The security threat isn’t the issue, my skillset is.
In real life the biggest issue is almost always whether or not you as a user update your software regularly after security issues have been discovered and the fixes are rolled out. That includes your operating system.
I am pretty positive you don’t lack the skillset do manage that on the majority of mainstream Linux distros. It’s about as hard as opening your browser on most.
Obviously stick with the OS you think fits your usecase best, though.
