[Tfug] Debian servers compromised

[Nick Lopez]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:29:54AM -0500, Jacob Greig wrote:
> okay, what does this mean to all us tertiary debian users (the ones who
> aren't on any debian lists and only use debian for apt-get and know
> nothing about really whats going on behind the scenes?)

  Nothing really. There probably won't be any updates making it into the
archive in the next couple days, that should be the extent of it.

  Probably not a bad idea to get rid of any services you arn't using and
double check your firewall though.  I have a sneaking suspicious that
somebody got ahold of an ssh key and used some sort of local exploit, but it
still could be a remote one.
 
  - Nick Lopez
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