Company fixes issue with Ubuntu 15.10 server images
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Feb 10, 2016 08:57 GMT · By Catalin Cimpanu In an email sent to customers, Linode has admitted to its blunder, saying that it deployed Ubuntu 15.10 images to some of its clients' servers that were using the same SSH key.
Linode says this happened from November 10, 2015, through February 4, 2016, but the problem has been fixed after the company updated its deployment configurations.
That means that, for about three months, Linode VPS servers hosted on Ubuntu machines would have been susceptible to the most trivial types of MitM (Man-in-the-Middle) attacks if an attacker had noticed the company's slip-up.
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