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Red Hat Fedora reveals details on intrusion attack

By Sean Michael Kerner

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“”The intruder did deploy the modified packages, and
the modified SSH package may have captured passphrases for a short
time,” Frields reported. “However, the investigation supports the
conclusion that the modified packages were discovered before anyone
accessed the system to sign any packages using the modified RPM
package.””


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