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Debian Project Servers Compromised

Posted by jamie on from the batten-down-hatches dept.

Sean was one of many to pass along the bad news from the debian-announce mailing list: "Some Debian Project machines have been compromised. This is a very unfortunate incident to report about. Some Debian servers were found to have been compromised in the last 24 hours. The archive is not affected by this compromise! In particular the following machines have been affected: 'master' (Bug Tracking System), 'murphy' (mailing lists), 'gluck' (web, cvs), 'klecker' (security, non-us, web search, www-master). Some of these services are currently not available as the machines undergo close inspection. Some services have been moved to other machines (www.debian.org for example). The security archive will be verified from trusted sources before it will become available again." They were going to announce 3.0r2 this morning; they've checked it and it's unaffected but obviously they're still postponing that release.

10 of 666 comments (clear)

  1. SCO Again!... by isoga · · Score: 5, Funny
    Obviously SCO are trying to break in and steal the source to prove once and for all that Linux has stolen their patents!

    ;)

    dave

    Tech stuff

    1. Re:SCO Again!... by Urkki · · Score: 5, Funny

      No no. They are trying to break in to *insert* patented code into Linux code, so they'd have a leg to stand on in the court ;)

  2. Re:That explains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for that insightful interpretation of events, Captain Obvious.

  3. Hearing the news, by KoolDude · · Score: 4, Funny


    ...thousands of slashdotters flocked to Netcraft website to check whether debian.org was running on IIS.

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  4. Re:Not on debian-announce archive by Tri · · Score: 3, Funny

    But when the three other random posters are debian devels... ;-)

    Except that anonymous coward person. I've never seen *him* in the keyring...

  5. OH NO!!!! by HungWeiLo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was any code stolen? OH wait...

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  6. Terrorist attack against Debian by S.+Baldrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    In response to the dastardly assault against the twin (mini-)towers, the President of Debian drew a line in the sand and immediately announced the invasion of Slackware.

  7. What the hell? by O.M.A.C. · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ran apt-get and my machine was converted to Windows 2003!

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  8. You should be using... by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why my apt-get was failing from people.debian.org last nite. Not to mention why debian.org was down. :(

    Funny, my apt-get using h4x0r3d.debian.org was working perfectly....

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  9. that really sucks... by mediaisthemassage · · Score: 3, Funny
    I just based my home cluster on debian because is so sexy...save the soul of your sun boxen and load linux....is fun....

    But security holes exist, there is no getting around this, no matter how paranoid you are...

    trust me..

    I am a sitting in a faraday cage right now...I built it in my apartment to keep those pesky NSA spooks from uplinking with the nano-chips they implanted in my brain....

    most of us are now implanted...you can't dig them out...i've tried....