warning to list

Ian Pilcher i.pilcher at comcast.net
Mon Oct 25 03:15:23 UTC 2004


AMAZING POWERS OF OBSERVATION wrote:
>         "Red Hat has been made aware that emails are circulating that
>         pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team. These emails
>         tell users to download and run an update from a users home
>         directory. This fake update appears to contain malicious code.
>         Official messages from the Red Hat security team are never sent
>         unsolicited, are always sent from the address
>         secalert at redhat.com, and are digitally signed by GPG. All
>         official updates for Red Hat products are digitally signed and
>         should not be installed unless they are correctly signed and the
>         signature is verified..."

Too bad rawhide updates often *are* unsigned.

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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