Developer Ponders Release of Linux Malware Dec 1, 2009, 15 :32 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (3529 reads) (Other stories by Tom Jowitt)
"A developer who claims he is tired of the “Linux is secure” argument has set out to develop a “package of malware for Unix/Linux” in order to help ethical hackers demonstrate the vulnerability of the open source operating system.
""I was fed up with the general consensus that Linux is oh-so-secure and has no malware,” a developer going by the name of buchner.johannes wrote on Ask Slashdot, in posting filed by kdawson.
"“After a week of work, I finished a package of malware for Unix/Linux," Johannes wrote. "Its whole purpose is to help white-hat hackers point out that a Linux system can be turned into a botnet client by simply downloading BOINC and attaching it to a user account to help scientific projects."
