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Fake Red Hat security update

Fake Red Hat security update

Posted Oct 28, 2004 22:19 UTC (Thu) by BackSeat (subscriber, #1886)
In reply to: Fake Red Hat security update by ccchips
Parent article: Fake Red Hat security update

> Security patch announcements from reputable companies don't come by e-mail

Most mainstream distributions have a security email list (SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, etc).


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security patch announcements by email

Posted Oct 29, 2004 21:49 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

A lot of people would says it's irresponsible of a company not to email its customers and tell them they need a security patch. I'm not a customer of any companies that distribute security patches, but I do occasionally get an email from my ISP urging me to get recent Windows updates.

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