On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:29 AM, max bianco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Matthew Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:09:09PM -0400, max wrote: > >>> I wondered that, too. The original posting was too vague. You can't > >>> tell if they're just fixing a fault, or sorting out an attack. > >> Assume the latter and act accordingly. > > > > Like, how? Quick, switch everything to another distro? We don't know > enough > > to act reasonably. > > > Like keep your eyes open for anything unusual at the least. Do a > little packet sniffing just to see if there is any unusual traffic...I > mean take sensible precautions, run chrootkit and rkhunter, run clam, > obviously you aren't going to blow away boxes on a whim but it pays to > be aware of what transpires on your network. I thought that is what > sysadmins were suppossed to do, be aware of what's going on with the > network. > If only all the sysadmins in the world had the time to check on each system and every packet on the network! Try looking for a needle in a haysack? The least fedora could have done is give some suggestions to users on how to take precautions if this is really a security issue which seems quite obvious now since it's been days and everyone is in the dark Steve
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