Significant rise in detected malware on Linux

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Lots of malware detected on Linux as per the reports.

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Good, that means GNU/LInux should get their h4xXx0rz hats on and enhance security :upside_down_face:

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Yes, if they adopt this, then security level will increase for all the users.

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Time to put my Linux Distro on lockdown

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They must have finally figured out that servers are a big get for malware if they just start targeting them.

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That’s statistical noise, servers were always a target, especially since crypto-miners become a thing…

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Immutable desktop. Container applications.

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What does “high” mean in this context?

I would argue that it is not high at all, and that this is all sensationalist poppycock, probably sponsored by Micro$oft.

From the fist article:

Windows – with 29 percent of the market – is still the most popular target overall.

You can smell the :ox::poop: from miles away. How can we spin this so that windoze doesn’t sound bad… I know, let’s call it a “popular target”, because popular is good, right? Yeah, it’s crappy and not secure at all, that’s the truth. In fact, Linux is a much more attractive target, given that pretty much all of the world’s servers run on it. Desktop windoze is much less valuable of a target in the current year when most of the data is kept in the clown – i.e. on Linux servers. It’s just the easiest attack vector.

Wake me up when there is some real news about malware on Linux, this is all dreadfully boring.

:yawning_face:

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Quantity of malware relative to the past.

Okay, Good Night :crescent_moon: :bridge_at_night: :night_with_stars: .

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Irrelevant. Of course there is more malware in the future than in the past. It’s called pRoGreSs… :rofl:

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So, will you consider this as higher rate observed this year in comparison with the rate in the past ?

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They have taught you the concept of the derivative in school, surely? You’re a mathematician and a physicist. A function can have a high derivative and still be low.

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I mean the steady rise which is observed, rather the predicted/predictable rise.

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By whom?

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Pubs aren’t as much fun without alcohol. Seeing these conversations sober is…different.

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I am not predicting. Those who keep statistical data will definitely make the progress report and also make some interpretation for progress in future.

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Though, our conversation may sound harsh, but this talk(talks like this) helps me to learn and correct my mistakes which I make during conversation. By this I learn the skill about how should I talk.

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Is this always true ?

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No, not always.