Linux Mint: Anatomy of a Hack
by from on (#14SRW)
Everybody understands that none of a stage magician's tricks are real. The one thing that is real, and which a successful illusionist must practice to perfection, is the art of misdirection - which evidently turned out the be the trick under the sleeves of the cracker/hackers who were responsible for compromising ISO downloads of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon on Saturday.