Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 03:12:25 +0100 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Pete Cottrell: FreeBSD - Good News and Bad News Message-ID: <5441.804219145@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Sigh!! FYI.. ------- Forwarded Message From: pete@cs.UMD.EDU (Pete Cottrell) Message-Id: <199506270110.VAA13354@zippy.cs.UMD.EDU> Subject: FreeBSD - Good News and Bad News Jordan - the good news is that FreeBSD has gotten print in a major newspaper. The bad news is .... well, they got the story a bit wrong. I have pointed out the error of their ways in a posting to a DC-area newsgroup in hopes of getting the correct story out. FYI, the "DigitalFlubs" column each week spotlights some techno-glitch or computer item gone awry. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From the June 26th, 1995 "DigitalFlubs" column of the WashTech part of the business section, published in every Monday's Washington Post: A piece of security software widely used on computer networks has a hole in it. The federally funded Computer Emergency Response Team said it has distributed instructions on how to correct the problem in FreeBSD, a program created by a software engineer in the Netherlands. In some circumstances, the hole lets people tapping into a computer see and alter information that should be off-limits to them. FreeBSD is an "enhancement" to S/Key, a program that controls password access to networked computers. S/Key itself does not have the problem. ------- End of Forwarded Message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5441.804219145>