News Linux Phishing Attack Circles Net

This report from eWeek will be of particular interest to penguinistas that wear burgundy fedora's:

A fake security bulletin purporting to be from Red Hat resurfaced, warning Linux users of a "critical-critical" security hole.

A bogus security bulletin and "patch" that circulated on the Internet late Friday marked the return of a phishing hoax aimed at Linux users.

The fake security bulletin warned Linux users of a "critical-critical" security hole that could compromise systems and allow root access to a remote attacker. It claimed the vulnerability was found in fileutils, the package of essential system utilities that manipulate files on a system. It warned of problem distributions including Red Hat versions 7.2 through 9.0, and Fedora Core 1 and Core 2 as well as others. However, the warning said BSD and Solaris platforms were unaffected by the vulnerability.

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