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Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, the end of security through obscurity on my Linux box?

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly. Still miles ahead in terms of security compared to windows. We have things like sandboxing, SELinux/apparmore and more.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

I just run everything as root because I have better things to do than hunt permission errors