pete <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Shit happens all the time...
>
>@Marius: getting into a sw distribution chain  is always sweet for 
>hackers,
>likely they wanted to get access to the repositories.
>
>@Miklos: will it be public, exactly how the pw was stolen? As much i 
>know
>about Krisztian, he is an experienced sysadmin so it'd worth for others
>to learn from this case.
>
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:36:23 -0600, Marius Cirsta wrote:
>> Not good news but at least there's no problem for us regular people
>> that have our private keys at home.
>>  What I do wonder though is who might have wanted to hack a 
>> Frugalware
>> server and why. It does have a pretty good internet connection I
>> suppose and some CPU power but still .... And with the recent
>> kernel.org attacks taking place at about the same time, it kind of
>> makes you wonder.
>>  I think that we do download the kernel straight from kernel.org,
>> right ? It's just speculation but maybe this is how they knew about 
>> FW
>> machines.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Miklos Vajna 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On August 25, genesis was root compromised. I discovered this issue 
>>> a
>>> few days after the incident. I wanted to keep back details till I 
>>> was
>>> sure I know what happened, thanks to Romain Wartel (CERN Security 
>>> Team)
>>> and Leif Nixon (Security officer, Swedish National Infrastructure 
>>> for
>>> Computing) for helping in finding out the details.
>
>
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Probably bruteforce, i also cannot see anything in my systems.
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