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Fedora infrastructure breach?

By Ryan Naraine | August 18, 2008, 8:05am PDT

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Has there been a security breach in Red Hat Fedora’s infrastucture systems?
According to a cryptic announcement posted to the Fedora-Announce mailing list, the open-source group is investigating an unspecified “issue in the infrastructure systems” that has resulted in widespread service outages.
In the note, Fedora maintainers recommend that end users avoid downloading packages on Fedora systems, [...]

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Ryan Naraine
Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, and cybercrime incident response. He's been an active security blogger since 2007, and maintains a popular security blog sharing real-time threats intelligence data with the rest of the community on a daily basis. More details on Dancho Danchev's current and past professional affiliations, can be found in his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter
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Fedora server compromised?Has there been a security breach in Red Hat Fedora’s infrastucture systems?

According to a cryptic announcement posted to the Fedora-Announce mailing list, the open-source group is investigating an unspecified “issue in the infrastructure systems” that has resulted in widespread service outages.

In the note, Fedora maintainers recommend that end users avoid downloading packages on Fedora systems, which strongly hints at a security-related problem:

  • The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance. We’re still assessing the end-user impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems.

A follow-up message posted over the weekend said the investigations were continuing but there are no details available on the cause of the problem.

Efforts to contact Red Hat Fedora maintainers have so far been unsuccessful.  I will update this post as necessary.

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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues.

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The most important disclosure is of my employment with Kaspersky Lab as a security evangelist. Kaspersky Lab is a global company specializing in anti-malware and secure content management technologies. I do not own stocks or other investments in any technology company.

Biography

Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.

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