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A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105

Julie188 writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors. As so often with kernel versions in the stable series, it remains undisclosed if the new versions contain changes which fix security vulnerabilities, although the number of changes and some of the descriptions of those changes certainly suggest that all the new versions contain security fixes."

Comment tools not reusable (Score 1) 118

For the folks who are planning to re-use those tools to analyze botnets, they should think again. The botnet "controller" usually DDoS the monitoring machine. They would also observe their bots for consistency. Moreover, they would keep changing the protocol making it difficult for people to construct clients to connect to those IRC channels.

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