[Beowulf] Hacked MBs It was only a matter of time

[Jeff Johnson]

If they could compromise potentially hundreds of thousands of servers they
could likely setup a seemingly legit site, like a CentOS mirror, and take
in data that looks legit.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:54 AM John Hearns via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org>
wrote:

> How does the data get "back to base"  ?
> I would encrypt it within an NTP or a DNS request  - but that assumes
> outgoing NTP/DNS is not firewalled off.
> I guess just encrypted in an HTTP(s) payload makes sense - servers
> make requests to all sorts of software repositories etc.
>
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