On Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:08:54 AM EST Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two > companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software > to the US Government and to major corporations. (see: > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html). > Does this have any effect on Fedora? Well, SolarWinds installs "agents" on servers to do their monitoring. So it is conceivable that their problem *could* be affecting Fedora systems. They use some pretty lame processes to do monitoring that require a program or programs to be installed as the root user. One program seems to fire off every second or two to sniff around and report. I do not know if the reported exposure extends to the agents installed on Linux systems, but we recently uninstalled all of that crap on our production Debian systems. (They are systems not exposed to the Internet, but still...) -- Garry T. Williams _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
