AMAZING POWERS OF OBSERVATION wrote:
"Red Hat has been made aware that emails are circulating that
pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team. These emails
tell users to download and run an update from a users home
directory. This fake update appears to contain malicious code.
Official messages from the Red Hat security team are never sent
unsolicited, are always sent from the address
secalert@xxxxxxxxxx, and are digitally signed by GPG. All
official updates for Red Hat products are digitally signed and
should not be installed unless they are correctly signed and the
signature is verified..."
Too bad rawhide updates often *are* unsigned.
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