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Red Hat, Fedora Servers Compromised

Posted by kdawson on from the quick-action dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an email sent to the fedora-announce mailing list, it has been revealed that both Fedora and Red Hat servers have been compromised. As a result Fedora is changing their package signing key. Red Hat has released a security advisory and a script to detect potentially compromised openssh packages."

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  1. What? by Slash.Poop · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It must be April 1st because this can't be true.
    slashDot has told me that the only unsecure OS platforms are produce by Microsoft.

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  2. It didn't happen anyway! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Teh Lunix Is Ulweeze Teh Secure! Dere Know Sekurities Floss In Teh Lunix, It Ull Be Teh MiKKKr0$$$l0th Prupogundaz!!!

  3. Re:"Compromised?" by Hyppy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Fedora repositories are believed to have been compromised. The RHEL repositories appear to be safe.

    Pray tell, which detail did I miss?

  4. Hmm by AP31R0N · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, Fedora and Red Hat use Windows Server 2003 for development?

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  5. Re:Nothing to see here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did Ballmer visit Red Hat recently? Maybe they should look for chair damage.