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[ale] Security breach on kernel.org
- Subject: [ale] Security breach on kernel.org
- From: atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com (Ron Frazier)
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:13:17 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
I'd hate to see a Trojan get into the kernel and auto update to my PC.
Hopefully, that's not likely. Hopefully, it's not possible.
Ron
On 9/1/2011 8:10 AM, Watson, Keith wrote:
> Security breach on kernel.org
> https://www.kernel.org/
>
> Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure.
>
>
> There is more information on their home page.
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> keith
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> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu 801 Atlantic Drive NW
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