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A pre-packaged exploit of a known security vulnerability that is distributed far and wide. Once someone packages a [[rootkit]] for a particular vulnerability, legions of clueless [[script kiddies]] will busily attempt to apply it to everything in sight.

It is important to patch security holes as soon as you know about them. It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL to patch them before a [[rootkit]] makes its way out to the [[script kiddies]] - no matter how obscure you think you are, it's an outright guarantee that you aren't so obscure that some random kiddie won't try that rootkit against your server or network at random.

(This is not a FreeBSD-specific term, but is included because it is relevant to any security discussion. See also [[white-hat]], [[black-hat]], [[script kiddie]].)

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 It is important to patch security holes as soon as you know about them.  It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL to patch them before a [[rootkit]] makes its way out to the [[script kiddie | script kiddies]] - no matter how obscure you think you are, it's an outright guarantee that you aren't so obscure that some random kiddie won't try that rootkit against your server or network at random.
-See also [[chrootkit]]
+See also [[chkrootkit]]
 (This is not a FreeBSD-specific term, but is included because it is relevant to any security discussion.  See also [[white-hat]], [[black-hat]], [[script kiddie]].)
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-A pre-packaged exploit of a known security vulnerability that is distributed far and wide.  Once someone packages a [[rootkit]] for a particular vulnerability, legions of clueless [[script kiddies]] will busily attempt to apply it to everything in sight.
+A pre-packaged exploit of a known security vulnerability that is distributed far and wide.  Once someone packages a [[rootkit]] for a particular vulnerability, legions of clueless [[script kiddie | script kiddies]] will busily attempt to apply it to everything in sight.
-It is important to patch security holes as soon as you know about them.  It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL to patch them before a [[rootkit]] makes its way out to the [[script kiddies]] - no matter how obscure you think you are, it's an outright guarantee that you aren't so obscure that some random kiddie won't try that rootkit against your server or network at random.
+It is important to patch security holes as soon as you know about them.  It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL to patch them before a [[rootkit]] makes its way out to the [[script kiddie | script kiddies]] - no matter how obscure you think you are, it's an outright guarantee that you aren't so obscure that some random kiddie won't try that rootkit against your server or network at random.
 (This is not a FreeBSD-specific term, but is included because it is relevant to any security discussion.  See also [[white-hat]], [[black-hat]], [[script kiddie]].)
 [[Category:FreeBSD Terminology]]