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Freeform Goodness is reporting a new phishing target - Linux sysadmins! Take a look at his post - he's received a clever attack:
Anyway, I thought this was notable 14 I 19ve seen phishes like this targeted at Windows users, but this is the first I 19ve seen specifically targeting 18nix admins. One would assume that they just collected a bunch of webmaster addresses, figuring (probably correctly) that a fair number of those boxes would be running Redhat. The email shows an attention to detail -- the HTML links to Redhat 19s real logo, linked from a Redhat server, and they even ran their HTML through Tidy!