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PostNuke Open Source CMS Attacked

Posted by michael on from the ruh-roh-shaggy dept.

ValourX writes "This morning the developers of the free software content management system PostNuke posted a security announcement saying that a vulnerability in the paFileDB download management software allowed an attacker to put up a hacked version of PostNuke for download. That version was live on the PostNuke download site between Sunday at 23:50 GMT and Tuesday at 8:30 GMT. Proprietary software zealots are always saying that open source programs are likely to contain backdoors, but is this situation truly what they mean when they say that? NewsForge (part of OSTG) has the story."

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  1. Re: M$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    please stop doing that [using 'M$'], as it was very clearly gay a good 5 years ago.

  2. Re: M$ by temojen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please stop using "gay" to mean passe. That's not what it means.

  3. moderation by MustardMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm getting a kick out of looking at the moderation happening to my post here. I rehash a tired slashdot joke like "Real Ultimate Power" and I almost always get +5, funny, but I post a real opinion on the way people think around here, and I get "overrated" (pussy mod afraid of metamod) and "flamebait". Flamebait? Smoke crack much?

    I'm going to rehash an old joke, which, surprise surprise, I got +5'd on. This post is off topic, I'm bitching about the moderators, so I should get modded down. Because I've said I will get modded down, by reverse psychology I will be modded up. And now It's back down again. And up... and down...

    I wonder if some mod has smoke coming out of his ears right now.

    The scary thing is, I think I'm starting to look like a troll, because I karma whore with jokes once in a while, and then a lot of my other posts bitch about how stupid people around here act. I promise I'm really not trolling or trying to start flamewars, I really think the majority of intelligent people around here must share some of my opinions and be baffled at the way this community acts. It's a fascinating phenomenon. I think a line from Men in Black said it best... "A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."