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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: d4v1ks on December 18, 2015, 06:55:12 pm

Title: Linux vulnerable since 2009
Post by: d4v1ks on December 18, 2015, 06:55:12 pm

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"Two security researchers from the Cybersecurity Group at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain found that it’s possible to bypass any kind of authentication and take control of a locked-down computer that runs Linux just by hitting the backspace 28 times. The bug is in Grub2, the bootloader used to initialize “most Linux systems,” according to the researchers, who published their research on Tuesday."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hack-into-a-linux-computer-by-hitting-the-backspace-28-times (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hack-into-a-linux-computer-by-hitting-the-backspace-28-times)

Title: Re: Linux vulnerable since 2009
Post by: Nemesis on December 18, 2015, 09:07:09 pm

Any computer you have physical access to can be hacked - if you have the skill.  Remote hacks are the real threat.