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Rise Security roots an Eee PC "out of the box"

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Author: quacker,

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: Rise Security roots an Eee PC "out of the box"

http://www.risesecurity.org/blog/entry/6/

From the Rise Security site:
"We recently acquired an ASUS Eee PC (if you want to know more about it, a lot of reviews are available on internet). The first thing we did when we put our hands at the ASUS Eee PC was to test its security. The ASUS Eee PC comes with a customized version of Xandros operating system installed, and some other bundled software like Mozilla Firefox, Pidgin, Skype and OpenOffice.org."

"Analysing the running processes of the ASUS Eee PC, the first thing that caught our attention was the running smbd process (the sshd daemon was started by us, and is not enabled by default)."

Superman was bulletproof too...

Author: Mrkvonic, Location: Sao_Tome

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject:

Hello,

If you install XP, Vista or even Ubuntu today on any PC, it will require updates... The same goes for any operating system. All that the user has to do is "update" the system. As simple as that.

Plus, the samba deamon was exploit from a local network. It does not mean that it listens on the net.

Either way, baseless scare.

Mrk

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