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| | Debian attacker may have used new exploit: ZDNet Australia: News: Security |
 | | Initial investigations of the security breach, which occurred on 19 November, indicate that the attacker was able to gain full control of Debian servers after logging on via unprivileged accounts, known as privilege escalation, according to James Troup, part of the team handling Debian's distribution. |
 | | The compromised servers were all running recent versions of the Linux core, and had almost all security updates installed, lending weight to the argument that the attacker used an exploit that hasn't yet been discovered and patched. |
 | | Because investigators don't know exactly how the attacker was able to gain control of the Debian servers, the Debian project was forced to lock all user accounts, and is still unable to unlock the accounts. |
| www.zdnet.com.au /newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20281486,00.htm (821 words) |
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