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An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion

An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion

Posted Mar 30, 2009 19:03 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion by qg6te2
Parent article: An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion

If the intruder had simply done a better job of log sanitization, the
failed cron job would have been no clue. (Of course that may have been
hard: he apparently hadn't escalated to root on that machine, let alone
got at the loghost(s)...)


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