April 17, 2010 · Security · 5 comments

Ninja is a privilege escalation detection  and  prevention system for GNU/Linux hosts. While running, it will monitor process activity on the local host, and keep track of  all processes  running  as root.  If a process is spawned with UID or GID zero (root), ninja will log necessary  informa-tion  about  this process, and optionally kill the process if it was spawned by an unauthorized user.
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