Nastier attack [LWN.net]

Nastier attack

Posted Jul 15, 2008 4:46 UTC (Tue) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
In reply to: Nastier attack by rgmoore
Parent article: Study: Attacks on package managers

Why is this a nasty attack? Compare to:

1. Portscan a lot of computers; save the results
2. When there's a security update, hit the computers running that program

It doesn't require you to have a mirror (and hence a large traceable presence) and hits all
targets, not just one distro. It's less targetted, but how often has that been a problem in
Internet attacks?

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