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Working Knowledge: How Toyota and Linux Keep Collaboration Simple Aug 2, 2005, 22 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (4450 reads) (Other stories by Philip Evans and Bob Wolf)
[Editor's Note: I happened upon this article today and thought it still pertinent to Linux Today readers, despite its December 2003 publication date. -BKP]
"Near midnight, Andrea Barisani, system administrator in the physics department of the University of Trieste, discovered that an attacker had struck his institution's Gentoo Linux server. He traced the breach to a vulnerable spot in the Linux kernel and another in rsync, a file transfer mechanism that automatically replicates data among computers. This was a serious attack: Any penetration of rsync could compromise files in thousands of servers worldwide.
"Barisani woke some colleagues, who put him in touch with Mike Warfield, a senior researcher at Internet Security Systems in Atlanta, and with Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell, a well-known Linux programmer in Australia on whose doctoral thesis rsync was based..."
