Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Intrusions hit Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers; some OpenSSH packages compromised

The maker of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora said that hackers have gained access to key servers in what appear to be two separate incidents. Red Hat Inc. found last week that someone had compromised several Fedora servers, including one that is used to sign Fedora packages. The company said that although the server was accessed illegally, they don’t believe that the passphrase used to get to the key used to actually sign the packages was compromised.

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