[CS-FSLUG] RED HAT HIT BY PHISHING SCAM

[N. Thompson]

I'd like to know who in their right mind would download a patch that 
came to them in an e-mail in much the same way as those Windows updates 
ones that don't tell you to launch windows update but rather tells you 
to download a file from a third party and install that manually.

Fred Miller wrote:

>RED HAT HIT BY PHISHING SCAM | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
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>Red Hat was forced to release a security warning for many of its
>Linux operating systems after an email phishing scam was discovered
>that asked users to download a patch containing malicious code. Could
>this be the beginning of a string of attacks on Linux?
>http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1019068,00.html?track=NL-301&ad=495389
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>MORE INFO:
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>Security woes old (worms) and new (phishing)
>http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci994705,00.html?track=NL-301&ad=495389
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