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Intrusion Cleanup Forces Delay For GNOME 2.6

Posted by timothy on from the checked-for-stupidity-and-found-malice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the GNOME site (both web and FTP) is back up and running again (from a replacement system). The restoration work is still going on, and dynamic content does not work yet. Bugzilla should be up by tomorrow (it is already in testing mode). More details are available in this announcement. Kudos to the GNOME sysadmin team for such a rapid recovery." However, blurzero writes "GNOME 2.6 was scheduled to be released sometime today, however after evidence of possible intrusion on the web server, the release has been delayed by one week, until March 31st." Update: 03/24 14:08 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points to this story on the delay at ZD Net Australia.

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  1. Re:Must've been a real bugger by deathazre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Looks like the GNOME site (both web and FTP) is back up and running again (from a replacement system)

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  2. Re:Must've been a real bugger by grub · · Score: 1, Redundant


    Intrustion cleanup is a real bastard to carry out with any degree of success.

    Reinstallation is the only tried and true method. Cleaning up to the point where you're satisfied will usually take a lot longer and will leave nagging doubt.

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  3. Re:Dumb Cracker? by goldspider · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If what Waugh says is true, it speaks volumes of the competantce of Red Hat's webserver admins.

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  4. Oh no! by Throtex · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They've hacked in and gotten the source code! For free!

  5. Where is the code? by ajs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does anyone have a copy of the code that was taken from the site? Any chance of the KDE developers being able to reverse engineer some of the Gnome features from it?

    Oh right, *open* source software.... ;-)