HEADS UP! Watch out for security on your machines and exploits!

[jdugan at ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jon Dugan)]

  In addition there may be a vulnerability in rsync running in daemon mode.  I
  received a forwarded email about this, so it is unverified at this time, but
  if you offer rsyncd access you may wish to monitor this.

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:48:49PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> There's definately a targeting of open source projects and infrastructure
> machines going on.  Another linux mirror has been compromised.  There's
> worrying developments on savannah.gnu.org, etc.  
> 
> Please take EXTRA care to watch your mirrors for 'funny stuff' and make damn
> sure that you're fully up todate with patches.
> 
> Being a cvsup*/ftp*/etc mirror means that you're going to be scanned and
> probed.  Especially now.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
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