Linux Kernel Security, Again by Jason Miller, SecurityFocus.com It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions. While investigating some reports of recent Unix compromises, I ran into a message from the SecurityFocus Incidents mailing list that was forwarded to me by the moderator, Daniel Hanson. It was a lengthy post detailing the compromise of a Linux machine. The post contained an awkward IRC-based discussion between the server administrator and the guy who had broke into the machine. Reading through this discussion, I discovered the following exchange which immediately...