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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