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Red Hat, Fedora Servers Suffer Breach

Posted by Kara Reeder Aug 25, 2008 9:12:51 AM

Coming on the heels of the Fedora Scholarship Program announcement, Red Hat admitted that hackers accessed infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project.

 

InfoWorld reports that Red Hat hinted at a problem on Aug. 14 when it said it was looking into an issue that could result in some service outages.

 

Officials say the hacker did not get the "passphrase used to secure the Fedora package signing key." In the Red Hat breach, the attacker was able to get a few OpenSSH packages relating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

 

Red Hat has released an update to those packages, which is available on the company's web site.

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