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How much sophistication does it take to attack a computer system running software that hasn’t been patched in years?

• rhodozelia 5y ago
  ./nestea.o
• icedchai 5y ago
  Many so called "professionals" are still running operations with 5+ year old distributions that haven't been patched in almost as many years, and servers that people are afraid to reboot. I was once contracted by a company that was literally afraid to have any employees reboot a server because they had no idea how it worked, if it would come back up, and what to do if something didn't restart. They wanted an outside guy to take the blame.
  • rm_-rf_slash 5y ago
    Would’ve been a decent opportunity to contract a job paid half up front.
    • icedchai 5y ago
      I took the job on the side. It was literally the equivalent of "set up a couple of static web servers with FTP accounts, and move everything over." It was about 8 hours of work and 100 hours of meetings.