[TriLUG] Linux Mint Site Hacked

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

Speaking of this subject, which I see as an interesting Karmic Twist, a
few years ago, I got my parents to move off of Windows and to Linux, Mint
to be exact.  One of the things that I had done was get them to use the
GPG plugin with their mail client.  When their PC died they decided to get
a Macbook and unfortunately, read several articles about encrypted email
not working on a Mac and people messing up their systems trying to install
it.

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA512
>
> They didn't even do that. They replace the *links* to the good ISO's
> with links to the hacker's machines containing bad ISO's.
>
> Goes to show though: sign everything with GPG and always validate sigs
>
> If anything, this was more an attack on the users rather than the OS...
>
> P.S.: Speaking of which, my key is 0x08B3FA4E...
>