Re: unattended-upgrades for baremetal servers on Debian

[Bigsy Bohr <curtyshoo@gmail.com>]

On 2025-11-27, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's nothing special about Microsoft -- it happens to Apple, Unix
> and Linux, too.  Malware authors are equal opportunity.
>
> To stop the threat, you patch your machines in a timely manner.

Right, but sadly the human element can be socially engineered in a way
that obviates simple software security.

> You can read more about how to design secure systems in Peter
> Gutmann's book Engineering Security,
><https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf>.  The
> discussion on the Microsoft study was presented in Writing Secure Code
> by Howard and LeBlanc, if I recall correctly.
>
> Jeff
>
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