A little bit of insight from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
RedHat hacked
RedHat just announced a breach (RHSA-2008:0855-6):
Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the distribution channel we use with our customers, Red Hat Network (RHN) and its associated
security measures. Based on these efforts, we remain highly confident that our systems and processes prevented the intrusion from compromising RHN or the content distributed via RHN and accordingly believe that customers who keep their systems updated using Red Hat Network are not at risk
SSH was targeted by the attackers:
In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only). As a precautionary measure, we are releasing an updated version of these packages, and have published a list of the tampered packages and how to detect them at http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
Check your packages.
Spain wins Tornado Gold
Heavy wind and big waves knocked out Germany in the final race, while the Aussies broke their rotator:
Interesting to watch how the Tornados sailed faster and handled tough conditions far better than the 49ers. The 49er medal race has more footage of capsizes than sailing.