[Info-vax] Some attackers are going after older operating systems

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 10/20/2021 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> For those of you who think that only the currently fashionable systems
>> get probed, this is an article for you:
>> 
>> https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/linux_solaris_under_attack_at_telcos/
>> 
>> Basically, the article claims other operating systems are being
>> probed precisely because they are _NOT_ being watched by infosec teams.
>
> Actually the article says that the current fashionable and
> biggest server marketshare OS Linux is being probed because
> infosec has more focus on Windows.
>

Erm, Arne, did you miss the Solaris references in the URL and in the
article ?

Solaris occupies the same places in organisations that VMS does and
by now probably also has the same "something different" mindset about
it to those organisations.

Simon.

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