[js1138]

OK, I won't spread any false gossip about the kernel. I wonder, however, how the font of all that is holy got hacked. Check out the posts on this thread. It's obvious that only Microsoft servers are vulnerable and only Microsoft email clients are vulnerable. I may have trolled a bit, but every thread about Microsoft is a troll booth.

[B Knotts]

It was due to an exploit that got released one week before the patch for the ptrace vulnerability in the kernel.

The GNU FTP server was hacked by a user that apparently had an account on the machine, during that week. He was collecting passwords.