Security and the Net

Recent rumors were confirmed today by a post to the Fedora Infrastructure mailinglist: some of Fedora’s core servers were hacked. 
One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing
Fedora packages. However, based on our efforts, we have high confidence
that the intruder was not able to capture the passphrase used to secure
the Fedora package [...]

According to a mailing list post on the 14th, there are infrastructure problems with the Fedora network, and users are advised not to download and/or install updates. ZDNet’s Zero Day blog suggests this might be security-related. 
While I’d normally think this is just a rumor and leave it at that until more information is available, it’s [...]