Red Hat: Fake Emails Circulating
By WebProNews
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2004-10-25
Red Hat posted a notice on their web site about fake emails that purport to come from them. Here is the statement in its entirety:
"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 install malicious updates. These trojan updates contain malicious code designed to compromise the systems they are run on. Official messages from the Red Hat security team are never sent unsolicited, are always sent from the address secalert@redhat.com, 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. For more details see www.redhat.com/security/team/key.html."
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