Last week, Red Hat defense specialists had a problem on their hands when they detected an illegal intrusion on the company’s computer systems. The attack affected both the Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and the servers of the Fedora Project, a Linux-based operating system supported by Red Hat.

Servers were instantly taken offline. Red Hat issued an advisory to its customers, telling them how to check to see whether they had been compromised and offering an updated

version of the affected packages, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

“Security specialists and administrators have been working since [they discovered the attack] to analyze the intrusion and the extent of the compromise, as well as reinstall Fedora systems,” said Paul W. Fields, Fedora’s project leader. “We are using the requisite outages as an opportunity to do other upgrades for the sake of functionality as […]

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