Red Hat confirmed Friday that hackers compromised infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project, including systems used to sign Fedora packages.
In the Red Hat compromise, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only).
As a precaution, Red Hat released an updated version of those packages, a list of tampered packages and a script to check if any of the packages are installed on a user's system.
About a year ago hackers were able to get into the Ubuntu servers. And some time ago Microsoft were also victims of a hack.
Being a System Administrator is like being a goal keeper in soccer. Everyone forgets the great and not-so-great saves, because what counts are the goals. Even when you are at the top of your game and are working hard to keep things running, the times you get hacked, and those will happen, are the times that are remembered. The example above are of Administrators in the major leagues, and even they get hacked on occasion.
Whilst it's sad to know that one cannot be 100% successful, I think it's helpful to know that failure will happen and that one needs to plan for that eventuality.
So? Do you have a disaster recovery plan?
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