Read the original article: Do Vulnerabilities Ever Get Old? Recent “Mirai” Variant Scanning for 20 Year Old Amanda Version?, (Wed, Sep 16th)
We always say how network security is changing every day. Take a long lunch, and you may miss a critical exploit. But sometimes, time appears to stand still. We just passed 1.6 Billion seconds in the Unix Epoch. Back when the Unix timestamp still had 9 digits, in the late 90s also known as “pre Y2K”, one of the servers you may have used for backups was Amanda (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver). Still active and alive today, back then Amanda V 2.3 was current.
Read the original article: Do Vulnerabilities Ever Get Old? Recent “Mirai” Variant Scanning for 20 Year Old Amanda Version?, (Wed, Sep 16th)