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Twitter hack, Red Hat, Linux skewered with Pwnie Awards at Black Hat

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“Red Hat got skewered with the Mass 0wnage award, also known as
the “Pwnie for Breaking the Internet,” for issuing a version of
OpenSSH that left a backdoor open to hackers. The Linux development
team earned “Lamest Vendor Response” recognition for “continually
assuming that all kernel memory corruption bugs are only
Denial-of-Service.”

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