Hacking Kernel.org Linux sorts the script kiddies from the developers - ComputerWeekly.com (blog)

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Not for the first time in its illustrious history, hackers recently chanced their collective arm by launching an attack on the Kernel.org Linux repository last month. The offensive used a Trojan in an attempt to ultimately make changes to the source code of the Linux kernel itself.

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Quite why hackers would target the chalice held dear to many developers' hearts is, arguably, harder to understand than any other "hack" -- given that hackers typically fall into the more code-aware segments of the global user community.

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Of course hackers are not developers. The hackers in this case used an off-the-shelf Trojan, so the protagonists in question were probably mere script kiddies with all the military precision and sophistication of London's recent maladjusted rioters.

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