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What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

Posted Aug 22, 2008 16:39 UTC (Fri) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)
In reply to: What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too by kripkenstein
Parent article: What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

I presume we will find out "soon enough" as well. However, given that in all likely hood RedHat/Fedora have the best security in the business, I would not presume we will find out before Red Hat quietly shares at least some details with its erstwhile competitors and sometime collaborators e.g. Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, Canonical, Freespire, SuSE...


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What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

Posted Aug 22, 2008 17:23 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Usually the human is the weakest link in any security system.

It's very likely that the attacker gained access to a account using social engineering or by
bad ssh habits on the part of a Fedora developer.

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